After Sorolla

Sue Murphy has produced several oil paintings which take inspiration from more famous artists and this time it's Sorolla. Her painting is of his garden in Madrid.

Garden in Madrid - after Sorolla

To find out more go to The National Gallery: What you need to know about Sorolla

Elephants

Sarah Amery has painted these baby elephants on a textured canvas using acrylics

Where you want to be

Daph Willett has been very creative during lockdown and Brian Griffith's classes have encouraged her to experiment. Three of her paintings are featured here. The first, Where you want to be but can't get yet, predates the scenes of overcrowded beaches that we saw on the news last week.

In the next she shows how close up get dramatic impact and the third image plays with paint and gesso and is an experiment mixing watercolour and gesso to get rock effects.

Watercolour and Brusho

Here’s a recent watercolour by Brian Griffiths which also uses Brusho powder colours. Size 8x12 ins

If you want to know more about Brian's work you can visit his website

Holidays remembered

On the way to a holiday in Scotland Richard Hyde stopped overnight in a B&B in the Lake District. It was almost dark when he photographed the view of the distant mountains and the 'unreal' colour of the sky. The photo re-awoke memories of that magical moment and was the inspiration for this pastel painting.

Lake District Sunset

The second painting takes us into Scotland and shows the Solway Firth. Despite a heavy grey overcast all the light was in the sky and sea with the land appearing in silhouette.

Buttercup Meadow

This rather pleasant pastel painting by Sue Embrey shows a buttercup meadow near Ledbury

Rescued

When a painting doesn't work out as planned it may still be possible to make something of it.

Sue Embrey wasn't happy with this one

Sue describes what she did: "I brushed off the lower half of blues then sprayed with a little water and brushed in. I added an under colour before adding the wild daffodils. I used a little fixative in the process." Here's the result