tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62964854852314021152023-09-21T15:38:19.684-07:00Greg Long, visual artist, IrelandA Blog by Visual Artist Greg Long.
Featuring some of Gregs Paintings and other art.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger268125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296485485231402115.post-77355015682003333002023-01-24T12:14:00.001-08:002023-01-24T12:16:03.290-08:00sunset Isla Plana.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqINIvYrdovSSLmqkiLTsnWywir_--aEHF8nck3JoDdpRtl3mkmO9wk0lbfyc7wkzjosnnhPXWWs3u93FizVeV1PPyDQrA2rj1b6vuoPro6q9WQmShBnf-tXie0v1X8g7dTcFJZBdiidZwXrunQ3m2nLcA5SWgQe0x_8kMOq8zU3s8ColF3EhaJRIp/s2513/IMG_20230114_122338.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2493" data-original-width="2513" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqINIvYrdovSSLmqkiLTsnWywir_--aEHF8nck3JoDdpRtl3mkmO9wk0lbfyc7wkzjosnnhPXWWs3u93FizVeV1PPyDQrA2rj1b6vuoPro6q9WQmShBnf-tXie0v1X8g7dTcFJZBdiidZwXrunQ3m2nLcA5SWgQe0x_8kMOq8zU3s8ColF3EhaJRIp/s320/IMG_20230114_122338.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Atardecer Isla Plana,<p></p><p> oil on wood panel 25 X 25cm</p><p><br /></p><p>https://www.paypal.com/ie/cgi-bin/webscr?SESSION=5ksIM-PmO4XlYccSQ7_oaZzVMZji4H6jkeyAPtvEqy5Zln8Qbq_3He3zlpy&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8db8175432b4df92754f4b4adb5a123d61<div class="blogger-post-footer">from:greglongartist.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296485485231402115.post-52428525273781790722023-01-20T10:19:00.001-08:002023-01-20T10:19:08.676-08:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha7h-hXoTQDjdfBVEwm3QmUwatjP7my4WDjcK6iieoYBIbjxKcY6MIXc37EWKG7Re3_sSPswl3EqjXxzntzUTyvqqTIqCovYUinn98uJ4dbL2oB6MfTKFbHEV_IIk7Q5yWHj-NQMjx81Q6CsHSl302E5kf2jBckq2nzP031-QsoE6hCBzlvM89T16b/s705/half%20a%20dozen%20freerange%20duck%20eggs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="669" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha7h-hXoTQDjdfBVEwm3QmUwatjP7my4WDjcK6iieoYBIbjxKcY6MIXc37EWKG7Re3_sSPswl3EqjXxzntzUTyvqqTIqCovYUinn98uJ4dbL2oB6MfTKFbHEV_IIk7Q5yWHj-NQMjx81Q6CsHSl302E5kf2jBckq2nzP031-QsoE6hCBzlvM89T16b/w584-h614/half%20a%20dozen%20freerange%20duck%20eggs.jpg" width="584" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Half a dozen free range duck eggs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">oil on canvas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">100cm X 100cm</div><br /> <p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">from:greglongartist.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296485485231402115.post-22491747617729599292021-05-21T02:04:00.002-07:002021-05-21T02:04:47.855-07:00Time spent in Spain.<p> Here are a few images from Spain, I have been painting but at a slower rate than previously. Life in Spain,for me, is at s much slower pace. I spend most of my time walking, kayaking, and enjoying the sunshine. All things that were difficult due to health problems in the dampness of Ireland.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d6ykR3CGES4/YKdx8YtsuYI/AAAAAAAACcA/f9zDfxhp4ogkti8aNsah8Mu6_IEyvhzWACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20210430_200110.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1696" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d6ykR3CGES4/YKdx8YtsuYI/AAAAAAAACcA/f9zDfxhp4ogkti8aNsah8Mu6_IEyvhzWACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210430_200110.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>This is the view from our house in Isla Plana, Spain. </p><p>The following two views are of the Rambla de l'Azohia, a dry riverbed.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AzMY0qn_WYg/YKdyrVM57RI/AAAAAAAACcM/DyHQlxDm50EcDa5Mi6a9whz3cIk_2XohgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20210215_140552.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1647" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AzMY0qn_WYg/YKdyrVM57RI/AAAAAAAACcM/DyHQlxDm50EcDa5Mi6a9whz3cIk_2XohgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210215_140552.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L-gHLYK_g1c/YKdyqFPRIBI/AAAAAAAACcI/eD8ooK3yFz81e-Nfm-koZhN9AjLSUl0RgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20210221_194554.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1545" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L-gHLYK_g1c/YKdyqFPRIBI/AAAAAAAACcI/eD8ooK3yFz81e-Nfm-koZhN9AjLSUl0RgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210221_194554.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>I also walk along the Rambla del cañar pictured below.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hqltyc1mxXM/YKdz2WY5ERI/AAAAAAAACcY/JJRCorv-d3YgadK9932dXtc7bl9IX2CTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s791/rambla%2B_de_ca%25C3%25B1ar_spain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="791" data-original-width="613" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hqltyc1mxXM/YKdz2WY5ERI/AAAAAAAACcY/JJRCorv-d3YgadK9932dXtc7bl9IX2CTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/rambla%2B_de_ca%25C3%25B1ar_spain.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and along the coastal walk past "cueva de los lobos"</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n9T7FMp2FmY/YKdz2edtYsI/AAAAAAAACcg/7rBCqbSyNLAHR0R1smYsGRER-dv4Zto6gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1343/Cueva_de_los_lobos_spain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1343" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n9T7FMp2FmY/YKdz2edtYsI/AAAAAAAACcg/7rBCqbSyNLAHR0R1smYsGRER-dv4Zto6gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Cueva_de_los_lobos_spain.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and the countryside in "Campillo del adentro", literally the little country inside, it's a beautiful spot surrounded by hills.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8enAGfzGIPU/YKdz2SKy0PI/AAAAAAAACcc/5pznMjqB8B4tl94fJOfikWZGN1flXMN8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s894/Campillo_de_Adentro_Spain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="894" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8enAGfzGIPU/YKdz2SKy0PI/AAAAAAAACcc/5pznMjqB8B4tl94fJOfikWZGN1flXMN8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Campillo_de_Adentro_Spain.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>As you can see, we are in a beautiful part of Spain, in the province of Murcia along the Costa Cálida, or in English the warm coast. After seven winters I'm almost fluent in Spanish, though my grammar is quite poor, but I get by with simple past and simple future and ignore all the other tenses when speaking. It makes life easier and I can still hold a conversation with our spanish friends.</p><p>That's all for now, I will try to update my blog a little more often...</p><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">from:greglongartist.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296485485231402115.post-8751935396753498572018-09-10T05:31:00.003-07:002021-05-21T02:05:58.910-07:00Preparing to Migrate South again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Summer is over, and I am on my way back to Spain.<div class="blogger-post-footer">from:greglongartist.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296485485231402115.post-51251108429552794462015-09-22T13:07:00.003-07:002015-09-22T13:07:40.404-07:00Summer has passed....Where has the last few months gone? I'm now in the middle of packing for my return to Spain.<br />
I haven't had time to do any painting as I have been busy renovating our cottage in Sligo. (Well in as much as I can until tradesmen turn up!)<br />
Now that I am back in Dublin I have time and internet connections to catch up on a few things. I have been lax with my blogging, but I hope to get back into the groove next month. In the meantime I will leave you with a Sligo sunset....Lough Arrow.<br />
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green leaves, tomatos and oranges.</div>
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There was a dead partridge hanging in a little country bar, next to the same bird on a calendar.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">from:greglongartist.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296485485231402115.post-84586050160951097132015-02-21T11:01:00.002-08:002015-02-21T11:02:36.594-08:00I'm back, but still in Spain.It is an age since I posted on my Blog. I have been busy with our new life in Spain. With so much to do, and so many new things to learn including the language, I'm afraid blogging is a habit that I fell out of, but I shall endeavour to start blogging again.<br />
In the meantime here are some of my plien air knife studies from the last few months in Murcia.<br />
They are all small 10 by 8 inch Oils on Panel.<br />
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near Mazarron, (old mineworkings)</div>
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Isla Plana and Puerto de Mazarron from our terrace again.</div>
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one of our sunsets again from our patio area.</div>
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a Pine tree at Cabo Tinoso</div>
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Isla Plana sunset, from the patio again</div>
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Broccoli fields near Leica</div>
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Isla Plana cove</div>
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Until later, I shall leave you to enjoy these. I will post some larger works soon.</div>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">from:greglongartist.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Spain37.614231415424165 -1.010742187534.406219415424161 -6.1743161875 40.822243415424168 4.1528318125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296485485231402115.post-34035336577453701072014-05-14T14:42:00.000-07:002014-05-14T14:42:07.509-07:00Flitting around with the swallows.I can't believe it's six months since I posted on this blog. I have been busy with life.....<br />
We spent January in Murcia, Spain. While there we explored the area and decided to stay around Isla Plana this winter. To this end we have rented a house on the beach from October on, and now we are looking forward to spending next winter in sunnier climes.<br />
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This has other opportunities, we are learning Spanish...slowly in my case... and I am looking forward to starting work when we get back to Murcia. The landscape is full of rich warm colours, just the kind of landscape I love to paint. A selection of pictures below will illustrate my point.<br />
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The house has a beautifully lit basement with a large high level window to use as a studio when I'm not painting on site so I will have no excuses not to work. In the meantime here in Ireland I am still not working at my painting, although I am very busy with my angling guiding this year in between trying to get home improvements progressed for when we return next spring. </div>
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Following on from my last post from Normandy, here are some of my photographs from the area these first ones are of the fortifications, beaches, monuments and the American cemetery.</div>
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Utah Beach monument</div>
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The beaches as they are now, quiet...</div>
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The town itself is very picturesque, but the weather was rather wet and cold.</div>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">from:greglongartist.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296485485231402115.post-75713801709397843342013-10-06T13:29:00.003-07:002013-10-06T13:29:59.720-07:00Travelling again.. both I and my plants..<br />
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The first sold sign has gone up on my <a href="http://www.artbygreglong.com/" target="_blank">new updated website</a> , barely a month after it went live. I know the new shopping cart is operating as it should, unlike the last couple of years.<br />
I'm due to visit Rome later this month, which should be a nice trip. I am travelling to the south of Spain in January, or, I should say <i>for</i> January. We are going for the whole month, and will be looking at long-tern rental properties in different areas. I am looking forward to that trip, the sun and warmth in particular. January can be very cold and miserable here.<br />
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My Strelitzia (bird of paradise) plants, including the <a href="http://greglongartist.blogspot.ie/2008/05/back-from-our-travels.html" target="_blank">nicotinia</a>,s are now residents of <a href="http://www.farmleigh.ie/" target="_blank">Farmleigh House</a> . </div>
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I have had to reduce the rainforest in my conservatory, and a friend's son who works at Farmleigh was delighted to get them for the collection there. I'm glad, I can visit them occasionally. I was a little sad to lose all my plants, most grown from seed, some of which I had collected by hand pollinating plants, but the compost wasn't helping my breathing problem which has been upgraded from Asthma to COPD. The up-side is the conservatory now looks very light and airy and much larger than it did hidden by all the foliage.</div>
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I have re-launched my <a href="http://www.artbygreglong.com/" target="_blank">website</a>. It was in need of updating, and had been in situ for 10 years in it's current format. I have my suspicions that the amount of java that was in the template I had been using was detrimental to the ease of use with smartphones too, but I can't complain it served me well for the decade at a cost of about $60 when I bought the license to use it. </div>
I decided to keep the new (improved, I hope) site simple. It is just a basic html and css setup with little to download other than the images to facilitate smart phone accessibility. Hopefully it will bring a level of sales similar to the old site when I was actually updating it. I'd messed up my shopping cart for about the last two years without realising it by changing my email address and forgetting to update the paypal shopping cart- even though the new email is on the same account the paypal cart was only operating - or not operating as the case was- on the now defunct email.<br />
Thankfully a buyer contacted me to let me know there was a problem, hence the rush to update without fully testing. I still need to finish off my alt tags and keywords etc. but the site is fully operational (as far as I know until someone actually buys from it again ;)) I added a link to here on the site to add to the functionality.<div class="blogger-post-footer">from:greglongartist.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296485485231402115.post-71198928028762257482013-08-27T15:09:00.002-07:002013-08-27T15:09:40.459-07:00Autumn is upon us....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Summer has reached it's evening with the end of August. Like on Lough Owel, pictured below.</div>
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I took this photo coming back from our latest trip to Sligo. I'm working on a plan or work-up for a painting of a Lough Mask landscape for a commission and found this on my camera. I'd forgotten I had taken this shot but it expresses the calm slow end to a summers day. The light struggling to creep through the hovering clouds, with the wind ripples almost totally disappeared from the surface of the water as if they too were off to bed for the night...<br />
It's how I feel at the moment, realising summer has all but gone, and winter is on the horizon.<div class="blogger-post-footer">from:greglongartist.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296485485231402115.post-65514243769922416552013-08-23T02:36:00.001-07:002013-08-23T02:37:06.313-07:00Summer sunshineI'm still on sabbatical...<br />
I haven't lifted a brush in an age, but to be honest the break has been good for me. I have a few ideas swirling around, mainly to do with our future plans and needs. This means that I couldn't really get involved in my work to any extent anyway, as I find it hard to compartmentalise. In the meantime I'm looking forward to the future with great anticipation.<br />
I know that when all our plans are made and ideas settled I can go into my studio and just get stuck in. I don't feel any pressure to create at the moment, and I know that when I am ready the work will flow, it's starting to itch in the background. It's not bad enough to need scratching yet though, and we all know when you start scratching an itch you just can't stop until it's gone.<br />
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For now I'm going to relax on the swing-seat in the shade of our pool-side birch tree outside the studio and contemplate.</div>
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In reality, that too is part of being an artist, but we sometimes forget it's relevance to our work. Possibly because it's so un-grounded, and as a professional artist, I tend to see art as a business rather than the artist as a Bohemian figure.</div>
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Others may see things differently, but that is what makes us artists as a body so diverse too.</div>
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A few photos showing the changing light on Lough Mask in County Mayo.<br />
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Me, otherwise known as St. Francis feeding the doves.</div>
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In Juan le Pins, with a flotilla of cruisers moored outside of Cannes for the Film festival.</div>
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Picasso's house in Antibes.</div>
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the river in St. Raphael in flood on Saturday after very heavy downpours.</div>
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Christine in St. Raphael, breakfast in a Cafe.</div>
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I'm feeling less and less like a full-time artist at the moment. In reality this year was always going to be problematic for serious painting though. I have too much work to do on the cottage and here in Dublin on other things apart from the <a href="http://greglongartist.blogspot.ie/2013/02/i-was-down-at-country-retreat-earlier.html" target="_blank">anticipated studio move</a> during the year which will also require removal of the studio contents before transporting it across the country.<br />
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Forecast: No paintings appearing for the foreseeable future. At least until I get the studio re-sited.<div class="blogger-post-footer">from:greglongartist.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296485485231402115.post-36878473716820329882013-03-26T13:45:00.002-07:002013-03-26T13:45:59.506-07:00Both sides of the Pyreneese Mountains, and Catalyns.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am back from my travels in <a href="http://www.girona.cat/turisme/eng/activitats.php" target="_blank">Girona</a>, Spain. The weather while not always balmy was quite good, with some nice sunshine. It was warmer than the snow and sleet I've arrived home to here! My legs are suffering after walking around the old 14th century (rebuilt from the 1st century BC) walls of the city, I don't think I've climbed so many steps and stairs in the whole of my last decade! (Unless you count the steps in Barcelona of course.) and there are many others within the town too. The nearest thing I found to elevators were the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castell" target="_blank">Spanish Castell groups</a> who spent the evening in Independence square building human towers while we ate al-fresco. They carried on into dark, an unexpected bonus for our evening.</span></div>
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We had snow this week, so spring must have arrived! I endeavoured to paint one plein air up in the Dublin Mountains on the old military road towards the sally gap. I thought about doing a second, but my hands were so cold I couldn't control the paint... the time of day is late afternoon and the temperature was dropping below freezing again. In the sky are bands of cloud heavy with snow showers, these came across the sky in regular lines, throwing down their cargo of snow in 10 minute waves. Unlike many other areas, when we get cold weather here in Ireland it is a damp cold, and although not as cold as other countries, it feels much colder.<br />
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I'm off to sunny Spain next week, (Northern Catalonia) weather forecasts for between 15 and 20 degrees centigrade, possible showers. Just like an Irish summer. I must remember to pack my sketchbook, I think I may take pastel pencils as well or instead of watercolours. We will probably travel across the border to southern France too. We want to visit Cadeques, Colioure and of we have time the Narbonne. it will be a change from today, St. Patrick's day in Dublin where it is cold, damp and very dull. <br />
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It will be about sixty yards from the cottage, far enough away to be 'at work' but close enough to pop home for a cup of tea. There is a little spring running in front of it, in which I will create a couple of weirs to give me more sound from the water, I intend putting a pond in lower down, but that will be in front of the <a href="http://greglongartist.blogspot.ie/2012/07/sligo-cottsage-our-country-estate.html" target="_blank">cottage</a> to the left of this picture. Some of our neighbours were particularly interested in what I was doing... but I don't expect they will really be bothered.</div>
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I decided to keep the Studio away from beside the stream as I wan't to create a walk alongside it rather than have the studio in view of the cottage. Where I am putting it is hidden from the cottage until we walk up the Bohreen (small narrow road) as it will be screened by trees and hedging.</div>
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We are looking forward to our move to Sligo, and every little bit we accomplish leads us nearer, although there is still lots of work to be done. At the moment doing it as we are, is a pleasure, and we are making our plans for the work more concrete as we go, because we are letting the feel of the cottage and land influence our descisions. Most of our plans and research are now done, and we can start implementing them over the summer. It will be a labour of love, assuming we get suitable weather this year, if it is as wet as last year work will be considerably slowed down.</div>
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Springtime has arrived... at least for now, we have had a couple of warm sunny days. The 17th of the month was almost balmy, and I put the warmth to good use by doing some plein air studies down the road, and in Wicklow. It was great to be able to go out and work after the winter, and I am considering setting off back to the Liffey Valley in the morning if the weather holds for tomorrow. There is a view I want to work on in a larger format. It will need a lot more detail than these four did, and will probably take a couple of plein air trips before I come back to the studio to finish it. The latter two images will help me recall the co,lours and conditions when working on the proposed larger work.<br />
The light had softened by the time I got to Kilbride, the fields looking greener and the trees turned more grey than brown on the shaded side of the mountain. But looking east from Bohernabreena the sunshine had the trees looking much brighter and brown, yet the golf club in the first painting also showed signs of a cool light in the shaded greens and fairways of the course. The fresh greens of new growth in the grass fields has a deep green and silver look at this time of the year. Later on in the year the greens will become much warmer, even in the shade. The fresh shoots of the grass give an almost magical light in the early spring sunshine, much more silvery than the early growth of the leaves in the trees and hedges later on in the spring which seem to just warm the browns and greys of the twigs before really turning green. <div class="blogger-post-footer">from:greglongartist.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296485485231402115.post-90064881731175172302013-01-23T13:05:00.001-08:002013-01-23T13:08:12.380-08:00Some new sketchbooks...<div style="text-align: justify;">
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I found some lovely leather bound 10 inch by 7.5 inch sketchbooks on sale in a bookshop, and I bought six of them for myself. It may sound greedy, but it is surprising how quickly you can fill a sketchbook when travelling or making thumbnail sketches when working on a compositional problem. Hopefully these will keep me going for a year or two, they are good quality paper and they will take watercolour as well as pencils, pastels and crayons. they are quite tactile too, with their leather covers, it is a pleasure to hold and carry them around. I have already created a fronticepiece doodle in the first book, noting when and where I purchased them. This helps me date the sketches in the books, as I rarely date the sketches themselves, but I date each book as I start using them, so I have a ball-park date on most sketches within the sketchbooks. </div>
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It is a new year, and it seems to be promising to be a good one. This evening I was treated to a wonderful sunset on my way home, and as the adage goes, red sky at night- shepherds delight; giving a promise of a fine day tomorrow. Spring is on it's way, and the evenings are starting to show the signs of the lengthening days. I look forward to the first flowers of spring, and the start of the trout fishing in 8 weeks time...<br />
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Since my last post I have been busy socialising over the Christmas period, and for the last few days catching up on a few jobs. Business as usual, and hopefully a profitable year to come. My first job next week is to tidy my studio, it became quite disorganised over the Christmas season, mainly due to paintings being lifted out of racks and stacked here and there for viewing. I need to safely stack them all back in the racks again to give me room in the studio for painting. I will have to ensure they are safe from splashing paint before I can start work. I hope to get some work done before the fishing starts, I'll feel less guilty slipping off to the river that way.<div class="blogger-post-footer">from:greglongartist.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6296485485231402115.post-52050364893129900962012-12-16T11:33:00.000-08:002012-12-16T11:33:13.255-08:00Water is Interesting....Christmas is but a week away, and thankfully I have been very busy since my last post. I have more work to complete next week so I'm not relaxing yet, but I am looking forward to Christmas.<br />
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I used this image on the cards I had printed, so to all who recieve standard shop bought cards... this is what the cards should look like... I <a href="http://greglongartist.blogspot.ie/2010/09/final-work-on-carna-bay-painting.html" target="_blank">painted this way back in September 2010</a> , it's not unlike the work I have been doing recently, but that is not particularly unusual since <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have a fascination with water, be it still, running or other. </span></span><br />
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