The Hundred Artworks Challenge, 10/100

Door of old building at Vassilitsi, Messinias, Greece.  Drawn for a sketch made 'On Location' on 16th April.
I drew the left-hand doorpost far too dark and had to again resort to using Zinc White gouach paint to lighten its non-shadow areas.

The 100 Artworks Challenge 7/100

Fishing boat on the harbourside at Agios Andreas, Messinias, Greece
I worked this artwork up from a sketch made 'On Location' on 2nd April.

'On Locotation' Xrysokalaria, 30th April 2014

On Location; Finicounda, 23rd April

Sketch made 'On Location' in Finicounda yesterday morning where, because a gale was blowing, I had to resort to parking my car on the jetty and use the car as a gently rocking shelter in which to make this sketch.

Almonds

Fisherman

Fishing Boat

Fishing boat on hard standing at Agios Andreas.

Across Agios Andreas Harbour

Drawn 'On Location',  9th April 2014

Wild Anemones, rocks, grasses.

On Location, 12th March 2014

Yanni's roadside tomato stall; new season tomatoes.  Drawn at Gill's studio from a photograph taken the previous day; painted later at home.

Olive Trees on the Edge of a Quarry

Luna Lounge again!

It has been rather lounge kind of weather here recently.

The Luna Lounge, Kalamata

The Luna Lounge: Best coffee this side of Italy, best croissant this side of France (Sez I!)

Kalamata conversations

Kalamata Town Centre. Friday 21st February

The town centre was very quiet today, much of the population was nursing its sore heads and stomachs; consequences of the previous day's excesses.  Thursday 20th had, this year, been 'Barbecue Thursday' a greek tradition connected to lent and Easter which dictates that on the Thursday in the middle of 'Carnival' local authorities, businesses and private residents will extend hospitality to share huge amounts of grilled meat copious litres of local wine with which to wash it down.

'On Loco' 20th February

This stone-built structure stands at the end of the harbour mole at Koroni.  I am uncertain of its origin, it is reputed to have been a shelter for a lamp kept burning for returning seafarers, a lamp from which they could light, when they came ashore, their lanterns.   The stone is deteriorating but some attempts appear to have been made from time to time to keep the structure in at least reasonable order.

Mystraki in Westering Sun

Drawn 10th February

A sketch of Mystraki catching the last of the afternoon sun.  I hope at sometime to make a larger, more considered, studio painting from this sketch.

Through the Kitchen Window

Drawn 9th February

The view north from the house.

Oxalis pes-caprae

In winter and early spring these cool lemon yellow flowers carpet the ground in the olive groves hereabouts.  In this sketch I attempted to be really free with my paint; to try to create an impression rather than to make a botanical drawing.

Drawn 6th February

Romulea

These small single flowers are flowering in abundance now.  The open beautifully in the morning sun but close with the fading light of the afternoon.

Drawn 3rd February