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I have completed a little body of work from my Hebrides trip this year. If you would like a piece they are all listed below in order of size, with prices and UK postage included – postage will be worked out for any sales abroad once you have emailed the destination.
Please email me at hello@claireleggett.co.uk and I will send payment details 🙂 Thank you x
BALRANALD 10cm x 7.5 cm watercolour on watercolour board £15 in UK p&p.
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FIELD 10cm x 7.5 cm watercolour on watercolour board £15 in UK p&p.
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DUBH-LOCHAN 10cm x 7.5 cm watercolour on watercolour board £15 in UK p&p.
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PORTREE, SKYE 6×4″ watercolour on watercolour paper £20 in UK p&p.
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THE BRAES, SKYE 6×4″ watercolour on watercolour paper £20 in UK p&p.
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AHMORE, UIST 6×4″ watercolour on watercolour paper £20 in UK p&p.
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LOCH MADDY. SOLD 6×4″ watercolour on watercolour paper £20 in UK p&p.
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LOCH MASSAIG. 6×4″ watercolour on watercolour paper £20 in UK p&p.
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SOUTH UIST 6×4″ watercolour on watercolour paper £20 in UK p&p.
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UIST INTERIOR 1 6×4″ watercolour on watercolour paper £20 in UK p&p.
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UP TO LOCH MAASAIG 6×4″ watercolour on watercolour paper £20 in UK p&p.
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SEILEBOST 10.5 x 27.5 cm. watercolour on watercolour paper £30 in UK p&p.
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I am offering up for pre-order these five Giclee prints taken from paintings in my sketchbook.
What is a Giclee print I hear you ask? It’s a fine art digital print but at archive quality (no fading) and it’s printed onto a paper (German Etching) that is very similar to the watercolour paper that I paint onto, so it looks like an original painting.
Your print will not be watermarked like those below- that’s just for internet copyright purposes – your print will be signed by yours truly and come unmounted ready for you to frame.
All the prints are A4 in size (with a small white border inc) and cost £20 including p&p in the UK and will arrive by the end of January.
– postage will be worked out for any sales abroad once you have emailed the destination.
Thank you so much, Claire x
Camas a’ Chaisteil
Ahmore, North Uist
Lochcarnon Road
Clachan Sands
Isle of Harris, Seilebost.
As the year draws to an end, I’ve found it has galvanised me to complete the body of paintings I have been working on ever since we visited The Hebrides back in April.
I have been steadily working away filling a sketchbook and creating ideas for future pattern designs in-between all the other things I also do. I find I like to nest a bit on my work before sharing it and now I find I have a lot to show.
The thing that caught my painters eye the most in The Hebrides were the patterns these little pieces of land make as they are cut through by waterways and creeks. I have enjoyed painting them over & over. I love the way the horizon blends in as the water is reflected in the skyÂ
I have also played around with granulating medium recently. This salt-marsh painting in Leverburgh was perfect for it. Granulating medium separates the pigment and binder allowing the colour to settle onto the surface of the paper making lots of texture,
I’m gearing up to have a little sale of some of these pieces – so watch this space if you’re interested, Claire x
As a painter who also designs surface patterns for fabrics etc, I am always instinctively drawn to find the pattern in landcapes.
I’ve recently re-learnt the benefit of repeat drawing and painting the same scene using a variety of medias. In doing this the mind, eye and hand join forces to develop a language of mark-making to represent the landscape and as one makes more responses of the same scene, one begins to edit colours and marks too.
And for me, that’s where the ideas for future patterns begin to emerge.
I have been working my way through the wealth of inspiration I found since returning from our 3 week adventure around some of the islands of the Outer Hebrides.
There was so much colour, texture and mood to capture.
I did try to work on site but found either the rain or the cramped cab conditions in the camper van a real challenge.
So most of my work has been done from photographs and sketchy sketches back home in the studio where conditions can be controlled!
I loved the colour palette of the Uist islands the best from all the islands we visited (I did a little write up of that in a previous post somewhere) – peaty brown, pink and burgundy – yum.
The beaches are legendary and with good reason too.
Lots of cloud and sky with beautiful delicate hues and fluffly clouds. Sometimes the weather changes very quickly and so stormy indigo blue clouds can roll in very quickly.
All of which makes this watercolour painter very happy.
Term has just wrapped up on my Painting and Drawing Flowers course at mac birmingham.
Over 12 weeks I’ve guided the students through some foundational exercises on tone, understanding and mixing colours, using watercolours, acrylics, pastels, inks and much more.
We have played with salt and masking fluid to create floral effects.
And also mixed all the toys in our art-boxes together to create with mixed-media.
We usually have an artist to reference each week – a great master/mistress or contemporary artist- whoever has work that is most useful for us to study at the time.
It has been really rewarding watching the students build their skills and knowledge and find their unique ways towards their own painting style and choice.
Some were very botanically inspired and wanted watercolour lightness, while others found using paint more thickly a rewarding experience.
I support whatever the individual artists inclination is and help them progress from where they are.
What was common amongst them was an enjoyment of painting and drawing and having the dedicated time to sit down together to do it.
If it sounds like something you’d like too, then places are booking now for the new term start on January 10th 2022 – love to have you with us.
PS – in case it allays any fears.. we sit socially distanced, air the room and wear masks.
As I use my blog as a diary and also as a reminder, I’m taking the liberty of playing with chronology!
We took this break in Shropshire 2 months ago back in October but I never managed to write this in a timely fashion.
And I wanted to remember many of the good things about it and not the dark and winding lane we had to endure for 15 mins before we got anywhere from the house nor the brief visit from a rat in the floorboard cavity!
But this photo pretty much sums the rest up 🙂
The surrounding landscape was beautiful and made all the more so by moody, rainy weather some days.
And being surrounded by nature (and having slow days) makes me want to draw and paint which feels like a luxury.
As does breakfasts like these.
Lottie is getting on now (11+) and each holiday usually brings a limp or broken nail but she is undaunted by the repairs to her cruciate ligaments or her arthritis and so it’s a joy to see her dashing about the country while we’re enjoying it too.
Made it!
Wow, that was a marathon adventure and like all good runners, towards then end I had to slow down rather than just stop and call it quits.
But like all things, its when you’re stretched and challenged that growth occurs.
The daily (or technically I should say sustained) practice of showing up to paint has indeed kept me creative and accountable for doing so.
And I have found that my muscle memory and my hand eye co-ordination has improved and that I’m as surprised as anyone when I can capture a plant in a few strokes of a brush and with a limited colour range.
In short, practice makes you better at looking and capturing.
Which shouldn’t surprise me really.
We know if we exercise that our muscles become stronger but probably don’t talk much in those terms of the process of practising creatively.
And we should, because it does work the same way.
I have thoroughly enjoyed naming the plants in my garden – many of which I have inherited from the previous owners or Mother Nature.
And I have a unexpected sense of satisfaction to have two books full of catalogued plant names.
But I am glad it’s finished now and as the season winds down I won’t have the challenge of finding something new to include.
With hindsight 100 was a lot and maybe 75 would have suited me just enough.
So when I calculated that there were only enough pages in the book for 96 I took that as a divine compromise 😉
Paint Drops Keep Falling 