Russell Dawson - Artist/Photographer

17/02/2021

19/06/2020

Wanted to try something different. Grabbed this off a Youtube walkabout. Like some of it, but need to study/practice more. Thanks school and college tutors. You taught me diddly squat!!! 🤪🤔😤 59 years old and gone back to basics! 🤣12x10 oil on board.

19/06/2020

I want to find out about what art means in the 21st century by discovering what our favourite art involves.

28/05/2020

St Thomas a Becket church, Fairfield, Romney Marsh 12x10 oil on board

22/05/2020

Two in lockdown! 12x10 oil on board. Bit 'twee' for me. But fun to do and learnt a lot while working on them.

21/05/2020

'His plein air painting technique (painting outdoors, directly from the subject) involved a careful and precise painting style that, in its deliberateness, required little over-painting. As he stated, “I noticed that everything that was done correctly on the first attempt was more true, and the forms more beautiful.”
Corot’s eye for the subtle shifts of tone between shades of green, from near-black to almost azure-blue, are what give his works of this time their dazzling quality of freshness and integrity. Under the warm skies of Provence and Italy, Corot painted perfectly judged works that forgo audacity and grandeur for a more poetic recollection of direct sensory experience.' Beautiful Landscapes By Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Christopher P Jones - medium.com

18/05/2020

'Searching for Corot 2' 12x10 oil on board

05/05/2020

Somewhere on a Cornish Moor - 12x10" oil on board Lockdown prevents going there in real time, so this is out of memory and imagination!!!!

30/04/2020

What a difference a frame makes! :)

30/04/2020

Forgot I did this some weeks ago! Smeaton's Pier, St Ives, Cornwall. 20x16" Oil on canvas.

16/04/2020

(Just in case you missed the post) A couple more delights.....