Rob Wigham Watercolours
  • Home
    • Available Work >
      • Typhoons on Patrol
      • Ben Rinnes View
      • The Water Tower and Standing Stones at Garmouth
    • Our Prints >
      • Coastline Prints >
        • Nairn to Findhorn >
          • The Findhorn Beach Huts
          • Findhorn Bay
          • On Findhorn Beach
          • Findhorn Shoreline
          • Nairn Harbour Sunset
          • Sunset at Findhorn Bay
          • Findhorn Sunset
          • Looking West from Nairn Beach
          • Nairn Harbour from Central Beach
          • Evening in Findhorn
          • A Walk on Roseisle Beach
        • Burghead to Hopeman >
          • On Hopeman Beach
          • Burghead from the Beach
          • Burning the Clavie at Burghead
          • Hopeman West Beach
          • On Cummingston Beach
          • The Beach Huts at Hopeman
          • Hopeman Harbour Reflections
          • Hopeman Harbour and Beaches
          • Sunshine at Cove Bay, Hopeman
          • Burghead Harbour from the Sea Wall
          • Fishing Boats in the Inner Harbour, Burghead
          • Hopeman Harbour from the Headland
          • Ketches Unloading at Hopeman
          • Sunsrise Over Burghead
          • Cummingston Sunset
          • Low Tide at Hopeman
        • Lossiemouth >
          • Seatown and East Beach from Prospect Terrace
          • Moray Clubhouse View, Lossiemouth
          • Moray Golf Course, 17 Long
          • Two Bridges at Lossiemouth
          • A Walk on West Beach, Lossiemouth
          • Lossiemouth's Old Bridge Sunset
          • Lossiemouth Memories
          • Old Friends
          • Lossiemouth's Old Bridge
          • Fishing Boats at Lossie
          • Covesea Lighthouse View
          • Sunset Over Lossiemouth
          • Setting Out from Lossiemouth
          • Sunrise Just for Us at Lossiemouth
          • Covesea Lighthouse Sunset
          • Lossie Beach to Ourselves!
        • Kingston to Portessie >
          • Sunset on the River Spey
          • Kingston Beach
          • Setting Out from Buckie
          • Memories of Portgordon
          • Over the Yardie at Buckie
          • The Rooftops of Portessie
          • The Spey Viaduct from the River
          • Strathlene Caravans
          • A Walk at Strathlene
          • Buckpool Shoreline
        • Findochty to Cullen >
          • Portknockie Harbour
          • Bow Fiddle Rock
          • Cullen Harbour and Seatown
          • Cullen Beach from the Castle
          • Findochty Lights
          • Through Cullen Viaduct
          • The Two Kings at Cullen
          • Cullen Harbour View
          • Findochty Harbour
          • Over the Rooftops of Cullen
          • The Ruins of Findlater Castle
          • Findochty Shoreline
          • Cullen Auld Kirk
          • Portknockie Harbour View
          • Sunrise at Bow Fiddle Rock
          • The Harbour at Portknockie
          • Seatown from Castle Hill, Cullen
          • Cullen's Rocky Shoreline
          • Morning Light Above Cullen
        • Fordyce and Portsoy >
          • Portsoy View
          • Summer in Portsoy
          • Sandend Harbour from the Brae
          • Tom's Jetty, Portsoy
          • Portsoy Caravans from the Brae
          • Portsoy Memories
          • Portsoy's New Harbour View
          • Summer at Portsoy (Greyscale)
          • Fordyce Castle and Kirk
          • A Walk at Sandend
          • The Rocks at Whitehills
        • Banff to Pennan >
          • Banff Harbour Sunshine
          • Crovie Shoreline
          • Banff Links
          • Macduff Harbour View
          • Gardenstown from the Old Church
      • Landscape Prints >
        • Brodie Castle
        • Ben Rinnes View
        • Craigellachie Bridge
        • The Water Tower and Standing Stones at Garmouth
        • Buckie High School
        • Gordon Castle
        • The Red Kirk, Mosstodloch
        • Winter Sun over the River Spey
        • The Northern Lights over Lochindorb
        • Springtime at Winding Walks, Fochabers
        • Pluscarden Abbey
        • Elgin Cathedral
        • The Old Bridge, Keith
        • Keith Town Station
        • Craigmin Bridge
        • Duffus Castle
        • Fordyce Castle and Kirk
        • Evening Light, Craigellachie
        • Inheritance
        • Our People
        • Still Is Our Land
        • The Canmore Engine Bridge, Alberta
        • 'The Castle' - Durham University College
        • Loch na Bo
      • Around Scotland >
        • Eilean Donan Castle
        • Loch Maree Sunset
        • Carrbridge
        • Lochnagar
      • Aviation Prints >
        • Typhoons on Patrol
        • Lossiemouth - Home of the P8
        • 32 (The Royal) Squadron
        • Lossiemouth Flypast
        • 'Remembering the Few'
        • Team Norway
        • Patrol's End
        • Homecoming
        • Pride of Moray
        • Jailbreak!
        • Texans over the Menai Strait
        • 51 Squadron 80th Parade and Flypast
        • Sea King Standby
        • Sentry: 30 Years of Service
        • Lancasters at War
        • Pumas' Desert RV
        • The Airborne Technician
        • The Navy Team
        • Team Lossiemouth
        • Pride of Moray Comes Home
        • 100 Years of US Naval Recon
        • Jaguars on the Break at Lossiemouth
        • Shadow Over Lincoln
        • Coming Home
        • P8: Protect, Serve, Defend
        • Lossiemouth Departure
        • Spitfire
        • The Cabs are Here!
        • Top Cover
        • Where She Belongs
        • Buccaneer Home
        • 120 Squadron - The First Hundred Years
        • 51 Squadron Centenary
        • 100 Years of 39 Squadron
    • Selected Commissions >
      • The Lodge
      • On Call
      • Oakbank
      • Laddie
      • It's a Dog's Life
      • Bramble
      • The Boys
      • Strathlene Shoreline
      • Sunset at West Beach
      • The Birch Woods
      • The Boys at Walla Crag
      • Speymouth View
      • June's House
      • A Nice Day For It!
      • Lady in Red
      • Three Amigos
      • No 42
      • East Beach Engagement
      • Reul A Chuain
      • Royal Dornoch Golf Course
      • Torridon Walk
      • Trev
      • A Forest Walk
      • Jack Russell
      • Spitfire and Texan
      • Nimrod MRA4
      • The Grey Lady
      • The Fisherman
      • The Escaping Airman
  • Rob's Blog
  • About
  • Framed Prints
  • Buying Our Work
  • What You Get
  • Contact Us
  • Shipping
  • Testimonials

If you can, get out there...

25/2/2018

2 Comments

 
In response to a few questions about painting water, and particularly crashing surf and big waves, I'm going to make a plea. It's not open to all of us to get out there and observe nature at work, but when we can, we really should! If you want to paint big water, you really need to understand the way it moves and why. You could study the physics for a long time, but the best way, I think, is to watch the water at work.
Picture
The point I'm making here is not how to paint water, but to get out there and watch it. As it 'heaves' up in one place, it pulls back from another, but there are always lines you can see relating to the overall pattern, they move all the time, but here, in this quick study I did for an art group class of the rocks off the caravan site at Findochty, you can see a single line of wave running from the top of the foreground rocks at left to the top of the foreground rocks on the right. This single line, unnoticed unless you're looking, holds the water together. In front of it, the water is swelling and pouring over the close rocks. Behind, the water has been sucked away ready for the big wave that's currently breaking behind it. Using these simple thoughts about the water's movements, we as artists can express our thoughts on the movement of the waves while avoiding that broken effect that makes them look artificial.  So, if you can, get out there and watch the water, making big lines on a sketch pad as you see the big lines form. Then go and paint!!
2 Comments
essay pro legit link
19/9/2018 03:42:41 am

This reminds of the importance of empathy. Empathy means putting yourself in one's shoes. I am not sure if they are really related but this is what I really felt. Observing how the water works in order to understand it better is like putting yourself in other's situation whenever they feel troubled. By doing this, you will be able to fully understand what they feel on that situation. There are lots of things to do for us to be able to understand what the others feel or think but the important thing should be the reason why we do it. We need to make sure that we do it because we want to help them.

Reply
edubirdie com review link
20/9/2018 07:50:15 am

Watching the waves crash into each other is one of the things I like to do when I need to relax. There is something in the ocean that calms me whenever I feel like I am about to explode from frustrations. When I was younger, my father would always take me to the beach. We would spend the whole day just playing in the sand and building sand castles. I would bury my dad in the sand and we would laugh so hard whenever the waves would crash into his face. I guess that is the main reason why I find oceans peaceful - it reminds me of my late father.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    A professional artist living and working in the beautiful north of Scotland. My work is realistic and quite traditional, though strongly interpretational in nature. My inspiration is the beauty of Nature, and the wonderful colours and moods she shows everywhere.

    Archives

    April 2025
    April 2022
    February 2021
    January 2021
    March 2020
    February 2020
    November 2018
    February 2018
    December 2017
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
    • Available Work >
      • Typhoons on Patrol
      • Ben Rinnes View
      • The Water Tower and Standing Stones at Garmouth
    • Our Prints >
      • Coastline Prints >
        • Nairn to Findhorn >
          • The Findhorn Beach Huts
          • Findhorn Bay
          • On Findhorn Beach
          • Findhorn Shoreline
          • Nairn Harbour Sunset
          • Sunset at Findhorn Bay
          • Findhorn Sunset
          • Looking West from Nairn Beach
          • Nairn Harbour from Central Beach
          • Evening in Findhorn
          • A Walk on Roseisle Beach
        • Burghead to Hopeman >
          • On Hopeman Beach
          • Burghead from the Beach
          • Burning the Clavie at Burghead
          • Hopeman West Beach
          • On Cummingston Beach
          • The Beach Huts at Hopeman
          • Hopeman Harbour Reflections
          • Hopeman Harbour and Beaches
          • Sunshine at Cove Bay, Hopeman
          • Burghead Harbour from the Sea Wall
          • Fishing Boats in the Inner Harbour, Burghead
          • Hopeman Harbour from the Headland
          • Ketches Unloading at Hopeman
          • Sunsrise Over Burghead
          • Cummingston Sunset
          • Low Tide at Hopeman
        • Lossiemouth >
          • Seatown and East Beach from Prospect Terrace
          • Moray Clubhouse View, Lossiemouth
          • Moray Golf Course, 17 Long
          • Two Bridges at Lossiemouth
          • A Walk on West Beach, Lossiemouth
          • Lossiemouth's Old Bridge Sunset
          • Lossiemouth Memories
          • Old Friends
          • Lossiemouth's Old Bridge
          • Fishing Boats at Lossie
          • Covesea Lighthouse View
          • Sunset Over Lossiemouth
          • Setting Out from Lossiemouth
          • Sunrise Just for Us at Lossiemouth
          • Covesea Lighthouse Sunset
          • Lossie Beach to Ourselves!
        • Kingston to Portessie >
          • Sunset on the River Spey
          • Kingston Beach
          • Setting Out from Buckie
          • Memories of Portgordon
          • Over the Yardie at Buckie
          • The Rooftops of Portessie
          • The Spey Viaduct from the River
          • Strathlene Caravans
          • A Walk at Strathlene
          • Buckpool Shoreline
        • Findochty to Cullen >
          • Portknockie Harbour
          • Bow Fiddle Rock
          • Cullen Harbour and Seatown
          • Cullen Beach from the Castle
          • Findochty Lights
          • Through Cullen Viaduct
          • The Two Kings at Cullen
          • Cullen Harbour View
          • Findochty Harbour
          • Over the Rooftops of Cullen
          • The Ruins of Findlater Castle
          • Findochty Shoreline
          • Cullen Auld Kirk
          • Portknockie Harbour View
          • Sunrise at Bow Fiddle Rock
          • The Harbour at Portknockie
          • Seatown from Castle Hill, Cullen
          • Cullen's Rocky Shoreline
          • Morning Light Above Cullen
        • Fordyce and Portsoy >
          • Portsoy View
          • Summer in Portsoy
          • Sandend Harbour from the Brae
          • Tom's Jetty, Portsoy
          • Portsoy Caravans from the Brae
          • Portsoy Memories
          • Portsoy's New Harbour View
          • Summer at Portsoy (Greyscale)
          • Fordyce Castle and Kirk
          • A Walk at Sandend
          • The Rocks at Whitehills
        • Banff to Pennan >
          • Banff Harbour Sunshine
          • Crovie Shoreline
          • Banff Links
          • Macduff Harbour View
          • Gardenstown from the Old Church
      • Landscape Prints >
        • Brodie Castle
        • Ben Rinnes View
        • Craigellachie Bridge
        • The Water Tower and Standing Stones at Garmouth
        • Buckie High School
        • Gordon Castle
        • The Red Kirk, Mosstodloch
        • Winter Sun over the River Spey
        • The Northern Lights over Lochindorb
        • Springtime at Winding Walks, Fochabers
        • Pluscarden Abbey
        • Elgin Cathedral
        • The Old Bridge, Keith
        • Keith Town Station
        • Craigmin Bridge
        • Duffus Castle
        • Fordyce Castle and Kirk
        • Evening Light, Craigellachie
        • Inheritance
        • Our People
        • Still Is Our Land
        • The Canmore Engine Bridge, Alberta
        • 'The Castle' - Durham University College
        • Loch na Bo
      • Around Scotland >
        • Eilean Donan Castle
        • Loch Maree Sunset
        • Carrbridge
        • Lochnagar
      • Aviation Prints >
        • Typhoons on Patrol
        • Lossiemouth - Home of the P8
        • 32 (The Royal) Squadron
        • Lossiemouth Flypast
        • 'Remembering the Few'
        • Team Norway
        • Patrol's End
        • Homecoming
        • Pride of Moray
        • Jailbreak!
        • Texans over the Menai Strait
        • 51 Squadron 80th Parade and Flypast
        • Sea King Standby
        • Sentry: 30 Years of Service
        • Lancasters at War
        • Pumas' Desert RV
        • The Airborne Technician
        • The Navy Team
        • Team Lossiemouth
        • Pride of Moray Comes Home
        • 100 Years of US Naval Recon
        • Jaguars on the Break at Lossiemouth
        • Shadow Over Lincoln
        • Coming Home
        • P8: Protect, Serve, Defend
        • Lossiemouth Departure
        • Spitfire
        • The Cabs are Here!
        • Top Cover
        • Where She Belongs
        • Buccaneer Home
        • 120 Squadron - The First Hundred Years
        • 51 Squadron Centenary
        • 100 Years of 39 Squadron
    • Selected Commissions >
      • The Lodge
      • On Call
      • Oakbank
      • Laddie
      • It's a Dog's Life
      • Bramble
      • The Boys
      • Strathlene Shoreline
      • Sunset at West Beach
      • The Birch Woods
      • The Boys at Walla Crag
      • Speymouth View
      • June's House
      • A Nice Day For It!
      • Lady in Red
      • Three Amigos
      • No 42
      • East Beach Engagement
      • Reul A Chuain
      • Royal Dornoch Golf Course
      • Torridon Walk
      • Trev
      • A Forest Walk
      • Jack Russell
      • Spitfire and Texan
      • Nimrod MRA4
      • The Grey Lady
      • The Fisherman
      • The Escaping Airman
  • Rob's Blog
  • About
  • Framed Prints
  • Buying Our Work
  • What You Get
  • Contact Us
  • Shipping
  • Testimonials