Working title: Summer Gold

Ever wondered how an artist approaches a new series of work? Well, regardless, I'm going to tell you how this artist approached this series, currently entitled Summer Gold. So .... having relished the feel of summer in the country over a couple of days in the past week, having done an initial sketch in acrylic, having pondered and doodled for some considerable time, then having prepared some canvases of various sizes, this morning I was up with the lark and straight into the studio.

The initial sketch in acrylic is shown in my last post, and here is one of my preparatory doodles. As for my ponderings, they consisted of trying to distill my impressions of recent summer days ... impressions of vivid colour: yellow, from the golden of evening sunlight through to the almost acid yellow of oilseed rape, skies of bright blue with white clouds, vibrant purplish grey as dusk approaches, and more greens than I can begin to describe ... And after all that, the studio work: committing my vision to canvas in a semi-abstract way - shown here is my first not-quite-finished painting.

Weather-wise, it's downhill from tomorrow onwards unfortunately .... the British summer is sadly a fickle season!