From Tim Wootton's Studio (1 Viewer)

[peter mathios]

Wow! Wow! Wow!!! Your latest are inspiring - as always

 

[peter mathios]

Actually, in going back a couple of pages, I've got to say that you really have a touch with water - be it ocean or harbor or wetland. Great stuff!

 

[Woody]

And you've caught the light too, wonderful, fresh little painting Tim.

I caught a bit of the BBC 'coast' programme last night, from Orkney and the Shetlands. Your cliff and seascapes are spot on.

Mike

 

[Keith Glasgow]

Beautiful - just beautiful,

Keith.

Sometimes you just see something that screams out to be painted. A sojourn to the Co-op took me past the harbour, as indeed most walks do, and this little creeler just caught the light.
Oil on canvas, 14"x10"

 

[timwootton]

I reckon this piece will be on the go for a few sessions, so I'll punctuate the progress by posting snapshots as it happens.
Please feel free to redirect me, as required.

 

[Apodemus]

Your treatment of air, light and water is magical. Looking forward to this next masterclass!

 

[timwootton]

Eeek - not sure I can live up to that, Mike!
Ah well, here's a bit of progress following the school-run (walk, actually).

 

[chris3871]

Can't wait to see the arctics finished.

The eiders round the boat are really great. I found myself a couple of Eiders bobbing about Flamborough Head last weekend ( the first wild'ns i've seen in a couple of years) and they were just as pretty as all you brilliant paintings show them to be.

Thanks for posting!

 

[timwootton]

Having returned from watching eldest child treading the boards in two productions this eve, decided a tad more work would be in order afore the morn. There's a detail posted too - just to show the slickness of my 'style' :-O

 

[Greg Butler]

Having returned from watching eldest child treading the boards in two productions this eve, decided a tad more work would be in order afore the morn. There's a detail posted too - just to show the slickness of my 'style' :-O

I can almost feel the spray Tim!

 

[jomo]

Ooooooooh, I'm going to love this! Birds, rocks, foam, waves - squee!

 

[Woody]

I'm enjoying the ride already and it's great to see the close up.

Another budding star I take it? Beth's just chosen her options and the west end beckons!

Mike

 

[timwootton]

. . . it grinds on . . .

 

[Woody]

You're gonna have to tell me how you manage to paint air the way you do.

Mike

 

[ed keeble]

I'm loving this one. With the detail (the birds) at the top I'm wondering if you will finish it to the same degree all the way down, or whether the bottom third or so will be allowed to stay a bit savagely done.

 

[timwootton]

Thanks Mike - I'm glad the sense of atmosphere is connecting with you. I know your 'painting air' comment is tad throw-away, but actually it got me thinking - just how I see painting nowadays and I think the reason why my paintings are heading where they are is really to do with the environment I live in. Thing is, the 'air' is such a real presence up here; it's regularly knocking me of my feet in the form of gales, often slapping wet salty snogs around my face and when the sunlight (once in a while) catches it at certain angles, the water content gives it a real sense of solidity. I've started to 'see' this solidity in my painting and am trying to work out how this effects colour and distance. It's not easy for me.
And good luck to Beth - I'm sure she'll get wherever she's aiming, with all the suport you're giving her. Sav is travelling to Aboyne with the play 'Twa Corbies' (an Orcadian dialect comedy) next weekend - she really enjoys the acting bit.

Good observation Ed - and it's something I'm putting more thought into - just how to 'finish' a painting. I don't want the foreground to play anything more than a supporting role, yet it still has to adhere to the 'darkest darks, lightest lights' principle. Or does it?

The next update will probably be the last.

 

[timwootton]

I so much wanted to make the foreground looser and, as Ed so eloquently put it, savagely done - but my brushes just wouldn't do as they were told. Something about needing to be more literal than I would like to be, I suppose. Having said that, it isn't as though the finish is airbrush-like. I'll post a couple of details to illustrate.

 

[Woody]

Great again.

Not really that much of a throwaway Tim. There is a thickness to the air in your recent work which gives a depth that I find difficult to achieve. Taking this latest as an example, there is a perceivable space beyond the birds, between them and the far rocks. I suspect you've created it by a subtle change in tones; The birds are both darker toned than the rocks beyond which, as you have said, gives a sort of solidity to the intervening space, a tonal perspective and that's really top notch technique.

Mike

 

[buzzard12]

Disgracefully good...

I dont know what to say about this one Tim, bar that its brilliant...

 

[desgreene]

Superb painting Tim. Like this one a lot.