This week in art class : wet pavements. Also, dog leggies.

[bunn]

JRR Tolkien & Bilbo Baggins strolling along Merton Street, Oxford after the rain, smoking their pipes.

The exercise was supposed to be a seasonal one about how to paint wet pavement reflecting evening lights, since the rain is here for the autumn.  I'm not sure I entirely got the wet reflected light as shiny as it could be. but I'm quite pleased with the cobbles and the figures. Also pleased that I managed to restrain myself from drawing 999 details into the buildings and just going for light and shadow.

Also, here is Rosie Roo putting on a fine display of Celtic Knotwork Legs.

Comments

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I see what you mean - I think the pavement is half dry after earlier rain :-) But as a picture of that state, it's very very good!

I can't see it as a city, though - I don't know Oxford, and it reminds me very strongly of some of the Fife villages.

*boggles at Rosie*

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Oxford is odd as a city because so much of the centre is colleges and libraries rather than shops and businesses. This is definitely Merton Street, though I wonder if I've changed the proportions accidentally very fractionally, so that the buildings aren't quite as tall as they should be. Ah well. The paving was the focus, and I was deliberately trying not to overwork the buildings so it makes sense they might be slightly out.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Sorry - if that was a criticism, it was of Oxford for not looking citylike, not of your painting, which I thought was wonderfully clever in evoking a certain type of place! :)

Fife has quite a lot of 'leftover' medieval, mostly, I think, because it was never so rich again - no one afterwards could afford to knock down and rebuild on a grand scale. Presumably Oxford kept its old buildings for more enlightened reasons!