Villages buildings and Towers
Many of you will know that I don’t shy away from drawing and painting Villages Buildings and Towers.
Here are some examples for you.
For me, buildings have a special significance as an artist, as I realise their accurate portrayal requires me to have a thorough understanding of perspective.
Here I will show you some examples, painted on my recent trip to Burgundy. I drove up a narrow lane to the top of the hills, to see if there was a view and came across St Romain Haute.
It was a pretty little village with its church, and ‘domaine’ wine producing estate. I didn’t spot any shops but it was a delightful quaint rural hilltop village where I happily whiled away a few hours.
The major challenge I encounter with painting villages buildings and towers is perspective.
You can see it’s effects here, in this view nearer to home, at Ramsgate in Kent.
I am looking up from the harbour, towards a row of fine restaurants and the Royal Temple Yacht Club buildings.
See how the roof lines appear to slope away and the curves in the balustrades appear strange. It is all due to the angle of my line of sight upwards towards the sky.
Here is another interesting structure, with awkward perspective, this time, a tower.
See how the rules of perspective made me show the tower appearing to narrow towards the top of the brick section. Additionally the iron frame on top is about the same height as the brick tower. But it appears much shorter, when viewed from ground level.
It was built to celebrate Wellington’s victory at Waterloo, and is located at Quex Park near Birchington. I painted this on location, with lots of artist friends, using Indian ink and watercolour. It shows this huge brick and iron structure, a folly really. It has stood now for 200 years.
The tower boasts a full set of eight bells which are popular with local bellringers or Campanologists as they are more correctly known.
I make these paintings more visible in greater detail on my ‘latest works’ page Here. It features several paintings of villages buildings and towers.
These paintings inspired by Quex House and Park were exhibited a few years ago in Ramsgate. Here is the poster.
