When researching Ireland, almost every landscape picture I could find in a travel book, from the internet and google earth, had the common themes of rocks, rocks and more rocks. Ireland appears to be laden with crumbly old rocks. Around the rocks were beautiful rolling hills, valleys, rivers, waterfalls, and spectacular coastline features, and a very earthy yellow/green palette of colours. For this painting I restricted my research to Ireland proper, which is most of the Island and its surrounding islets, save the north which is part of the European Union. After several water-themed paintings I wanted the next few to focus on land-based themes, hence the mountain ranges of Iran, and this close-up view of rocks in Ireland. I hope if an Irish person saw this, they would agree that it best represents the Irish landscape.
Most of this painting was done with old paint tubes that I cut open. The colours included yellow (PY154), red-orange (PO73) and blue (PB60), with a bit of leftover black (PBk6) and raw sienna (PBr7). You probably would not have guessed that the painting was done with only three colours plus black.
World Inspired Landscapes: Ireland, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, April 2023 (No. 3601)
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