Painting Cows on Cors Caron Tregaron
by Edward McNaught-Davis
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16.000 x 12.000 inches
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Title
Painting Cows on Cors Caron Tregaron
Artist
Edward McNaught-Davis
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
Painting cows on Cors Caron near Tregaron was made with acrylic paint on stretched canvas on a New Year’s day. I was walking my dog around it during that afternoon when I decided to paint it. It was too cold outside to paint it all in situ so I sketched it in oil pastel and took supporting reference photos.
All of the painting you can see was painted within my warmer studio and from my sketches and photographs. The original painting is varnished and framed.
Cors Caron is also known as Tregaron Bog and it is understood to be Europe’s oldest peat bog although the digging for peat now is strictly prohibitive. The area is patrolled by wardens.
Instead the Cors Caron land is now a famous nature reserve where farm animals mingle on its periphery with the indigenous wild life.
You can see a herd of Friesian cows grazing in waterlogged fields prior to the real start of the Cors Caron nature reserve - this starts with the long orange coloured grasses within my painting.
One of the cows on the left was being bothered by insects as evidenced by her thrashing tail swatting her flank. Or maybe she had an itch.
Further into my picture you can see an impression of a couple of horses grazing and just after them, you’ll see a lake and which is fed by the Afon Teifi river and its tributaries.
To the right of the lake is a small copse and surrounding the water in parts are a few trees growing on their own. The lake was original a hole in the ground from where peat was dug many years ago.
Beyond the lake and to its sides the windswept nature reserve continues to the distant hills with the first two sets being relatively accurate with their contours. The hills shown as a bluish grey in the far distance have been accentuated a little to provide more interest and to suit the overall composition better.
The sky is a faithful reproduction on how it looked with the start of an orange coloured sunset. The light at the time affected the colours of the nature reserve’s long and wild grasses and allowed for more detail to be seen such as old boundary walls, abandoned peat holes and dips within the land.
I have painted quite a few pictures of Cors Caron and which some are shown on this site.
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March 29th, 2012
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