Staithes Beck by night:

Staithes Beck by night:, a photo by Vyvyan Green on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
There's much wrong with this piece, it's overworked and too much played-about with........ I've taken the paper as far as it'll go, working it any more would really not be a good Idea.....
Yet I'm loathe to dump it, as I feel it has one or two redeeming qualities...

Watercolour 5" x 9" on Bockingford 200lb paper

Catching up....

I've been neglecting this site.......sorry,  been busy with 'stuff' for...... Oops! almost a year, it appears... my apologies, I will get on it...

Now that winter is coming, I'll  have lotsa time... for catching up on ... more stuff...

Weatherman starting to drop the 'snow' word of late, ...... stores full of christmas stuff..... van needs a brake job.....

Actually the van really needs setting fire to.....

Finished......Trees beside the Ure, Aysgarth, Yorkshire Dales.

Something of a change, eh?

I have a bad habit when I have 'completed' a painting, of looking and seeing another 'better' piece within it, or deciding that there are more things I might add to it..... so enthusiastically I go ahead and change it, totally, and generally destroy what had likely been a good piece. Those of you out there familiar with the practicalities of working in watercolour are well aware that even the best of papers will take only a certain amount of abuse before giving up. So I often end up with no painting to show for my efforts, and the despair of having ruined a good piece.
This is a ludicrous thing to do and this man is an utter fool you are no doubt thinking.
But I don't paint with the intent of producing a vast inventory of pieces to stick on a wall, I paint with the intent of becoming a better painter.
More on this topic later...

Trees beside the Ure, Aysgarth, Yorkshire Dales.  2010
Acrylic on canvas. 16" x 20"

Painting in progress... Trees beside the Ure, Aysgarth, Yorkshire Dales.

Bad photo,........ taken in artificial light..... acrylic on canvas
I'm fairly happy with the composition, but.... but... a little washed out, needs separation, or unifying....needs some, some - umph!
Back to it...

For those who would like some exciting news....

well, sorry, but as I've been so busy of late, I don't really have any.
But I guess I should put something in my blog, now that I've installed it, and I'm itching to try uploading an image...
Whilst not exactly earth-shattering or even up to date - here's me last year at Aysgarth Falls in the Yorkshire Dales.........

To begin at the beginning... Sept: 08:2010

Well, I've finally finished working on the new website  at <vyvyangreenwatercolours.ca> , it has been an Herculean task coming thus far.
I thought it best to get it posted up, before I went totally balmy from the effort, and before I took an axe to my computer - I am not, despite my totally fantastic coolness, what the 'now' people refer to as a.... 'techie'.