Olive trees

Here is the start of my second painting based on my Avignon holiday. This is a little olive orchard in a garden at Villeneuve, across the river from Avignon. I'll have to work at capturing the flickering silvery colours of the leaves - they reflect the light in a most beautiful way. When this is finished it will be available at my etsy shop, at http://www.azuredayart.etsy.com

Avignon

Here is an early sketch of my latest painting - a view of rooftops and bell-tower in Avignon. I've just had a wonderful holiday there, and this was part of the view when we opened the hotel curtains!
So far, this is just a sketch of the composition and an indication of the colours, which were light and delicate, with silvery tints in the old tiles in contrast to the warmer colours on the new tiles at the front. When the painting is finished, it will be available in my etsy shop, at http://azuredayart.etsy.com

Work in progress - Flamborough Head

I've just started this view of the chalk cliffs at Flamborough Head. I was fascinated by the shapes and colours of the areas of leafless brambles on the clifftops on a fine very early spring day. There were lots of interesting umber and violety colours, and the brambly areas actually looked soft and 'furry'. I hope this works out as intended! At the moment just roughing out areas of colour (acrylic).
This is a couple of miles along from the Bempton Cliffs featured in an earlier post (http://azuredayart.blogspot.com/2011/01/bempton-cliffs.html), and is the left-hand side of the bay whereas my ink drawing shows the right-hand side (http://azuredayart.blogspot.com/2010/11/flamborough-head.html).

Work in progress

Here's a view of two abstract oil paintings I'm working on just now. The left-hand one should be ready to add to my etsy shop soon. I'm not quite sure where the right-hand one is going yet. (Or perhaps I should just treat the drawing board as an abstract painting?)

They're both autumnal tinted pictures based on tiny parts of images from my collection of photos of rock and mineral microscope slides. These provide inspiration for all sorts of paintings and have great colour combinations.

(I've just realized that if you click on one of my blog images a large-size version pops up.)