David A Parfitt RI
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Member of The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours
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Just made a new website…a bit of an experiment.
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Did some sketchbook doodling listening to Led Zeppelin.
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People really aren’t my thing, but I rather enjoyed sitting on the beach making these little drawings yesterday
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Spent an hour on this in the studio this morning then decided to go home to stop me spoiling it. ‘Golden woodland’, watercolour, 38x42cms.
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From a work perspective, the past few months have been a real struggle and my motivation to create anything continues to be almost non-existent but I fight on - this morning, thinking about snow and walking through the woods with my grandad. Watercolour, 26x28cms.
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All the snow has gone but not in my studio... I’m painting it while I can remember it. ‘Walking home’, Watercolour, 10x11ins
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In the studio today: Made some 20x20cms paintings of Somerset. This is one them. Untitled.
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I can’t begin to express what a relief this has been today... the first half decent painting I’ve competed in ...kin’ months.
‘Wetland spring’ 10x11ins
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Forcing myself to visit the studio - my first little watercolour this year… it’s taken 2 days. More snow. Watercolour, 25x26cms.
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Today… ‘Along the lane’, mixed-media, approx 20x24cms
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Trivial but this a little video of the homemade watercolour painting book I’ve been using this year. It shows all the paintings, the good, the bad and the ugly.
25x25.5cms.
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Managed to do some trees today, watercolour, approx 24x26cms.
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I hardly see any art on my twitter feed these days…. nonetheless here are 3 little watercolours I rediscovered in the studio today: Spring, Winter and Summer, watercolour, approx 12.5x38cms.
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Still trying to escape the apathy. A little painting today based on a walk around Shapwick NNR yesterday. Watercolour, 25x25.5cms.
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My last watercolour attempt of 2021, 26x28cms.
Thank you so much to everyone who has liked, commented, bought and sold paintings from/for me this year. Your support is invaluable. xx
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I’ve been monoprinting this week. These are the ones that didn’t end up in the bin
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My sixth and possibly last winter rhyne watercolour attempt for now... I think I’ve managed to bore myself. Approx 23x31cms. Trying to keep a carefree approach. Approximately 2 hours in the studio this afternoon. I’ve attached all 6 paintings for you to see.
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Well.... I’ve been monoprinting today. I guess there’s a bit of drawing in this Somerset Wetlands
#DrawingAugust
day 20
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My first drawing in many many months. Based on a photo from a day out yesterday.
#drawingaugust
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A look through my moleskine watercolour sketchbook (May to Oct 2021).
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A little bit of painting at Worm’s Head yesterday... before the rain.
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In the studio this morning, ‘Autumn leaves’, watercolour, 38x43cms.
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First painting in a while… ‘Flood’, watercolour, 38x42cms.
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First time in the studio in 5 days... messed around with this, ‘Damp, miserable and grey’, watercolour, approx 26x28cms.
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In the studio this morning: this is my third attempt at this wetland watercolour. I may well continue to bore you with my progress. 23x31cms.
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Really pleased that my 2 monoprints ‘Reeds and Trees I’ and ‘Reeds and trees II’ have both been accepted for the 166th
@RWABristol
Annual Open exhibition (7 Oct - 25 Nov) 😊
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A 2xspeed version of my Snowdonia II sketchbook completed in June last year... the normal speed version is on my Instagram:
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Started as a doodle, turned into an hour. Landscape study, watercolour 38x42cms.
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Probably my best effort today…. Monoprint, approx 20x22cms.
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First painting in ages, ‘House in the woods’, mixed-media, 29x41cms
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Bought a new brush and... gues what... I painted some trees. Watercolour, 8x8ins.
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Collage of my recent watercolours made after walks around Westhay Moor National National Reserve
#avalonmarshes
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Not done much over the past few days so here’s a collage of some of my
#DrawingAugust
posts this year.
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I’ve been making some paint... Phthalo Blue & Raw Umber green shade, used (with Lemon Yellow) in this little watercolour landscape
#mendiphills
11x12ins.
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In the studio this morning, a winter wetland watercolour study. Approx 23x26cms. I’ve painted this view so many times and it will probably end up in the bin but it’s comforting to be with something familiar in my attempts to get back painting.
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Trying to work stuff out… watercolour and pencil. Based on field walks over the past couple of days. 25x29cms
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Not done any painting in a while but I have made some little drawings.
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My first painting since 22 February. ‘Winter road’, watercolour with some water soluble pencils, approx 26x28cms.
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In the studio today… ‘Some autumn leaves’, watercolour, 26x28cms.
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Some blue and green watercolour studies today. And… I think I am in love my homemade ultramarine paint.
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Landscape studio sketchbook of studies made during September to November 2020. Some invented, some remembered and some from the studio window.
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Seems appropriate.... here’s a little watercolour ‘Snow road’, part of my submission to
@RIwatercolours
2018 exhibition
@mallgalleries
6-21 April 2018
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I’ve been rubbish this week. My only contribution.... another monoprint. Wetlands.
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Completely bored with the same colours so trying out some different palette combinations. This is one of them. Sodalite Genuine, Indian Yellow & Transparent Brown Oxide. Watercolour, 8x8ins.
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Hedge doodle, done with a rigger on Saunders HP paper… Watercolour, 19x20cms
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Looked at some old 35mm photos in the studio this morning and used them as a basis for this watercolour - ‘Vintage walk’, 38x43cms.
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Massive moment for me and it will need quite a bit of work in the studio, but this is the first plein air watercolour I’ve competed for about 5 years.
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Looking through older work at the studio and I think this is still a keeper… ‘Golden trees’ from 2016/7, watercolour, 56x76cms.
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15 mins making a few marks to get going, but decided to leave this landscape as snow. Watercolour, 25x26cms.
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My group of 4 paintings in the
@RIwatercolours
2019 exhibition
@mallgalleries
. I described my angst making these paintings in the March edition of
@artpublishing
‘The Artist’ magazine.
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Yesterday and today… ‘Dry summer’, watercolour, 38x43cms
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A quick sketchbook doodle turned into something which for the life of me I wish I could replicate on larger scale.
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Finished this today. Started it a year ago and been sitting in the planchest since then. Watercolour, 38x40cms.
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#drawingaugust
Ink, watercolour and pencil A5 sketchbook drawing in the studio this morning
#SnowdoniaMemories
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Really pleased to be showing these 2 monoprints in the 167th Annual
@RWABristol
Open Exhibition, 29th September to 1st December.
#RWA167
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In the studio this morning and based on last week’s effort… for now this is ‘Autumn water’, 38x43cms.
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My first work in a while… kind of inspired by a trip to collect my grandchildren from Glastonbury in the early hours, some old photos and looking out the studio window. ‘A Mendip summer’ watercolour, 38x43cms.
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Yesterday and today during open studios - ‘Sun and rain’, watercolour, approx 27x30cms.
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Cant stop doing monoprints and felt much better today after last week’s debacle... Somerset Wetlands on Somerset satin paper
#stcmill
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Looking at my work in the studio today. ‘Waiting for rain’ watercolour, 20x23cms.
#snowdonia
#memories
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A few watercolour sketches from a weekend on the Jurassic Coast
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Today I have been mostly painting pathways. This is path number 3, watercolour, 25x26cms.
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In the studio today - 4 new monoprints based on yesterday’s walk around the quarry.
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Really pleased that my little watercolour, ‘Ghost House’, has been selected for the 2018
@STWatercolour
competition.
#stcmill
#millfordpaper
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Made some changes to this painting from October 2021. This is ‘Landscape blues’, watercolour, 38x43cms.
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Messed around with this today… watercolour and some pencil.. 38x43cms
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1 of my watercolours in the 2019
@RIwatercolours
exhibition
@mallgalleries
3-18Apr19. ‘Beast from the East II’ - I used to walk these woods with my grandad. It always brings back special memories when I paint this place.
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In the studio over the past 2 days. ‘Some autumn leaves’, watercolour, 38x43cms.
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Got a bit angry with this thing so covered it in acrylic paint then drew into and on it with pencil... therefore this is my
#drawingaugust
effort for today. 29x33cms (based on yesterday’s drawing).
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Final effort this week... ‘Morning walk II’, watercolour, approx 23x27cms.
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My latest watercolour, completed in the studio this week - ‘Wookey walk II’, 38x41cms.
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This is my first attempt at plein air sketching since February. Not great but it was wonderful to put some paint on paper... outdoors.
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Don’t think I’ve ever posted 2 paintings in a day before so apologies for the spam, but I think I had a good day today... here is this afternoon’s effort - ‘Hidden house III’ Watercolour, 29x41cms.
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My third green painting this week and probably my favourite. ‘Variegation’, watercolour, 38x42cms.
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Coffee and drawing. Not done this in a long time.
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