Rosehips Welsh Landscape Art

by Edward McNaught-Davis

Original - Sold

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Dimensions

12.000 x 16.000 x 0.750 inches

Title

Rosehips Welsh Landscape Art

Artist

Edward McNaught-Davis

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Canvas

Description

Rosehips Welsh landscape art is a painting which took many weeks to complete with all its detailed glazes despite its small size of 20 by 16 inches.

There is much fine detail within it and especially for the grasses and hedging. The scene is real and was visited daily by me, the artist, with my dog as we lived close by in the Cwmmynach farm house; located between Cribyn and Lampeter along the Maestir road on the B4337.

The painting includes sheep in both fields, crows in the front field and a lone master huntsman in the mid distance and who is placed just in front of the woodlands.

I put him there to take the colour of the red rose hip berries further back into the composition by making his jacket a similar shade of red. This Welsh landscape area was visited occasionally by the local drag hunt during their annual seasons. Their red jackets are referred as Pinks. But most huntsman wear black jackets.

While making art sketches of this Welsh country scene, I had placed my drawing pad on top of an aluminium gate to steady it. I was at the boundaries of two farms and each with respective permission to cross each other’s fields.

In particular, I liked the pinkish yellowy light of the summery sky. It was quite a warm day. To capture the light I took many photographs with a small digital pocket camera. The photos were then transferred to a desk top PC with a big screen.

The painting was made in my studio and which was only about 300 yards from this scene. It meant that I could easily and quickly revisit the scene to recheck some detail that photographs do not always display with any clarity.

This Rosehips Welsh landscape art berry painting was achieved with artist’s heavy body acrylics and with a small selection of brushes. It was painted during a September month.

For some parts of the painting I thinned the thick pigments to get a more translucent affect and especially on the red berries.

It’s a quiet and peaceful place with no intensive farming. Although the fields shown in the painting are used for occasional sheep grazing they are natural pasture and not fertilized with chemical additives to make the grass grow at a quicker rate.

The original was sold to a private buyer but I retained the copyright in order to make and sell reproduction prints.

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January 20th, 2013

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