Sunlit Bluebells Llanina Ceredigion

by Edward McNaught-Davis

Title

Sunlit Bluebells Llanina Ceredigion

Artist

Edward McNaught-Davis

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Paper

Description

I felt inspired to paint the light strewn across these sunlit bluebells at Llanina and which came to a halt abruptly just beyond these two trees. Although the pigments used were acrylic, I adopted a watercolour style and so many thin layers of paint were used to create this picture on specially treated paper.

Normally, I would not have noticed these two trees nor the bluebells had it not been for the intense brightness of the mid afternoon light and which highlighted the scene. I parked my car in the designated small car park adjacent to it. It was my dog who found this scene initially and then subsequently me as I went to look for him.

This scene is a very short walk from St. Ina’s church at Llanina and close to the Afon Gido stream that eventually flows past the church and close to the Cei Bach country club and into the Irish sea at the far Northern end of New Quay beach.

Despite the occasional tourist, the area is quite serene and generally if you visit, you will enjoy the area for yourself.

As you can see from my painting, the scene I have captured is in a small clearing among dense woodland vegetation that is unmanaged and left to its own wild and natural habitat.

Although painting different greens is not too difficult in itself, you have to bear in mind how well they will reproduce once digitised in a photograph.

There were some other species of wild blue flowers within the immediate surroundings but these were not bluebells. You can see a line of these other blue flowers just beyond the ferns in the middle distance of my artwork. Beyond these is dense shrub comprising mainly overgrown bushes.

The afternoon sunlight was streaming through other taller trees; not shown in my picture. This light clipped the two principal tree trunks plus some of their leaves and another plant to the left of them as well as the bluebells on the ground leading to the two tree trunks.

The light seemed to have a spiritual intensity about it. It virtually bleached everything in its path. To get its intensity of brightness I let the whiteness of the paper shine through as using white paint would have dulled it.

Some white paint was used though to tint the bluebell stalks on the periphery in the foreground.

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March 2nd, 2012

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