Emma Cownie

Joined Artfinder: May 2013

Artworks for sale: 1036

(273)

United Kingdom

Updates from Emma Cownie's studio

  • A Successful Hunt!

    A Successful Hunt!

    ...and here we are, Mitzi and Biddy and I after tracking down the painting location for some en plain air, overlooking Three Cliffs Bay, Gower Pensinsula.

    01 February 2016
    My Dogs out on the Hunt

    My Dogs out on the Hunt

    My Dogs, Mitzy and Biddy, are here with me, out on the hunt for en plein air painting locations - this time near Three Cliffs Bay, Parkmill, Gower Peninsula, Wales, UK on a rare sunny day!

    01 February 2016
    Biddy giving tips on En Plein Air

    Biddy giving tips on En Plein Air

    Biddy, my lovely dog, giving me tips on En Plein Air painting in the Black Mountains, Wales.

    01 February 2016
    Mitzy and Me at Work

    Mitzy and Me at Work

    Painting down near Three Cliffs Bay in Gower with my faithful companion Mitzy.

    29 January 2016
    En Plein Air in The Black Mountains

    En Plein Air in The Black Mountains

    To cheer me up in this persistent rainy gloom, let's look forward to more en plein air painting like this one from last year in The Black Mountains, Wales. Now that's the life.

    29 January 2016
    ARTIST AT WORK

    ARTIST AT WORK

    Here I am in my attic studio with it's excellent north facing light, ideal for painting, palette on my lap. Bliss!

    05 November 2015
    Getting from here to there....

    Getting from here to there....

    From the mixing of oil colours on the pallette to the painting on the canvas. It always amazes me how a painting is born from these swirling colours on a pallette. How the colours become a whole imagined world. From chaos to order.

    15 October 2015
    Keeping the Colours Clean

    Keeping the Colours Clean

    A part of my style is trying to paint brilliant colours which I achieve via careful mixing of colours and by "keeping my artist pallete clean". This means I frequently wipe all the residual paint of the pallete, and scrub the pallet clean so that the colours are not muddy but kept clean. This reflects in the strength of colour on the canvas. I also use linen canvas instead of white cotton canvas as it seems to produce much richer colours too.

    24 September 2015
    A Moment's Deliberation

    A Moment's Deliberation

    A moments deliberation in the midst of creative process to see if various parts are hanging together, before deciding which part needs painting next. Paintings sometimes can appear as enormous puzzles in attempting to create a moment, a sense of now, of lasting immediacy. When I paint I try to piece together different parts of the whole, painting what I see intuitively, in different sections of the canvas, trusting that the whole thing will pull together as I progress.

    24 September 2015
    The Finishing Touches...

    The Finishing Touches...

    Here I am applying the finishing touches to my oil painting "Spring Coloured Wood". With these larger paintings, this one is 92 x 73cm, I find I need to prop the canvas on an additional wooden block to raise the canvas up a bit so that I do not have to stoop down too low to paint. It is one of those tips, things one learns, along the way.

    22 September 2015
    The Coolest Certificate of Authenticity!

    The Coolest Certificate of Authenticity!

    When a lovely artlover buys one of my oil paintings they will also receive this lovely printed certificate of authenticity with a miniature Giclee print of the painting they have just bought embedded. This will be printed on my own professional Canon printer. How cool is that!? I love these!

    03 September 2015
    En Plein Air in the Black Mountains

    En Plein Air in the Black Mountains

    Just arrived back from a wonderfully relaxing holiday in the Black Mountains - a week of walking, climbing up hills and mountains, taking photographs, painting en plein air and painting sketching for later art work. Great to get away from it all if only to come back refreshed and loaded up with inspiration for future artwork. The Black Mountains is a major inspiration, alongside the Gower Peninsula, in my art work. I love the clear mountain light, the shadows it creates, casting its long dark fingers across rounded hills, through tree and hedgerows and deep into the ragged craggy furrows of the numerous glaciated mountain faces strewn throughout this area of the Brecon Beacons.

    16 August 2015