Patrick Brennan's Blog – October 2010 Archive (3)

this is the more abstract version of in the country

I have found that people cant help looking over the artists shoulder, some do ask first but others well you know.Some of the strangest places where i have encountered curious people,In my early days painting out I was rather shy, so I would go to remot locations, normaly into the hills around Donegal, I found a spot with a good view over Donegal bay, sat down, took out the required equiptment, there was a clear view all around, abslutily not a person in sight, aprox 20 minuets at the point you… Read on...

This was painted from a series of photographs and sketches taken on one of my days in and around co Donegal. The Background hills are simplyfied so they do not distract from the forground.This painting containes both abstract (hills) and represintinal (forground),