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David A Parfitt RI

@davidaparfittri.bsky.social
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Artist. Elected member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours

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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
If I don’t force myself into making paintings then…… in the studio today ‘Early Morning Woodland’, watercolour, 38x42cms
Watercolour painting of a woodland path in dappled spring sunlight, with dark greens either side. The path looks towards the early morning sun and leads to a lighter distance.
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Thank you
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Thank you 🙏🏻
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I really don’t know what’s happening, but another day in the studio and another painting this morning. This is ‘Not snow II’, watercolour, 38x42cms #art #artist #watercolour
Watercolour painting looking through a woodland to a green distance in spring light. Blue shadows dance diagonally across the woodland floor which I’ve left as white paper to represent the sunlight.
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Thank you
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Thank you
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Reasonably warm in the studio this morning and my first painting in what seems like absolutely months. I don’t know what’s happened, but I actually felt like putting brush to paper today. Anyway, this is… ‘No, it’s not snow’, watercolour, 38x42cms #art #artist #watercolour #watercolor
Watercolour painting looking through a woodland to a green distance in spring light. Blue shadows dance diagonally across the woodland floor which I’ve left as white paper to represent the sunlight.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 28/02/2025
Can all the papers run this as their cover tomorrow like they did the AI thing?
God bless Janey and her Trump is a Cunt sign
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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
If you’ve never heard the sound of pebbles being scraped back to sea by a receding wave, have a listen to this! I’ll never forget the first time I heard this - March 2012 on Vík beach. This is Malarrif last weekend. #Iceland #iPhone15Pro
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Concept for Solo: A Star Wars Story
Digital painting, environment art for Solo: A Star Wars Story. Han and Chewie check out a hilltop town
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Patricia Volk RWA FRSS @patriciavolk.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Dap H35W96D35cms another one of my favourites. Dap” is a friendly gesture of greeting, agreement, or solidarity. I like to think this piece is a symbol of togetherness, people coming together. A linking of thoughts & life, personal opinion & my background all tied up in this piece
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Sketching at lovely Dungeness, 9 😮 years ago
Pencil sketch, a boat at Dungeness Pencil sketch, a boat at Dungeness Pencil sketch, a boat at Dungeness
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
My first painting in quite sometime. Not my best but I’ve put paint on paper. Watercolour 39x42cms
Watercolour painting of the view over my mother’s garden hedge. There are fields, white houses in the middle distance, a disused coal mine now overgrown with winter trees, all disappearing into a blue distance.
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Thank you
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Thank you Jon. Like a lot of others I’m attempting to replicate that old feeling of using film but with my Fuji camera. It’s a welcome distraction.
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It’s not been a great week thus far to say the least. Took this photo walking back home.
Photo of the street in my village at night. The camera’s daylight white balance has given the photo a reddish cast.
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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Andrew Scott George @andrewscottgeorge.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Over the Hills #eggtempera
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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Iain Sarjeant @iainsarjeant.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Over the next couple of days I'm sharing images from my forthcoming book 'An Uncertain Path'. Last chance to pre-order a copy for £17 from @anotherplacepress.bsky.social here - anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/an-u...
Black & white photograph of a ruined WW2 airfield building.
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Hahahaha, very true.
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I’m rather ashamed to say that I haven’t attempted to make any new work for over a month.
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Malcolm Ashman @malcolm-ashman.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
‘Sleuthing’
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
There isn’t long left to enter work into the 2025 RI exhibition. Submissions close on the 28th January at 12noon.
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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I've made some small drawings on wood of ships, in the North Sea. Paintings to follow I think. Drawn from the umpteen thousand photos I have of them. I'm enjoying the grain of the wood getting involved.
Swirling sea wave drawing in charcoal on wood, with ship and beacon on the horizonSwirling sea wave drawing in charcoal on wood, with ship on the horizonSwirling sea wave drawing in charcoal on wood, with ship and rain cloud on the horizon
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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Low cloud making sunlight look like moonlight Today on the mountain
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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Malcolm Ashman @malcolm-ashman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
‘Catching the Drift’ acrylic on panel 20x15cm #royalsocietyofbritishartists
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
'Frost Light' by contemporary Scottish painter Victoria Crowe #WomensArt
Painting featuring a bare frost covered tree in the foreground in front of a snowy rural scene of a field and bushes in the background under a white sky and pale rising sun.
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Thank you Kaz. Didn’t even think of them 🙄
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Can anyone recommend a company (UK) who buy analogue cameras and lenses?
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
FFS. Blocked.
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Happy New Year Lee.
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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Shutter speed is such a powerful tool in photography. This is slowed down to 1/10th second (& on a tripod) so the falling snow looks like vertical lines of rain. Taken last January on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in #Iceland as the weather worsened, when I still had the courage to venture out a bit...
A view of a volcanic, rocky coastline, with some stacks out to sea. The foreground is covered with snow and some grasses are just showing. The sea is moving around and quite frothy and green. The sky is very grey, and lines of snow are falling vertically.
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Bought a ‘new’ camera so I could go out in the rain, but it was sunny this morning, so went out anyway.
Winter, blue sky with long tree shadows across a field, leading to a line of trees.Sunlit woodland path leading to a White House over a stile.
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Malcolm Ashman @malcolm-ashman.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Fjord - acrylic on panel 60x60cm 2024
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Thanks John, you make wonderful images. Full of drama.
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Thanks John, I’ve got some little ziplock bags which I bought for putting the camera in when it rained, but never used them.
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Thank you for that advice. Yes, I’ll make sure I dry out the camera after I’ve been out.
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Thank you, that’s very helpful. I currently don’t take the camera if I know it’s going to rain.
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Photographers… I have a Fuji XE2 but is it worth getting a XT1 as well (for the weather resistance), or is that a waste of money?
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Happy Christmas everyone.
Illuminated Christmas tree at night.
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Winter colours on Duirinish, western Skye. Watercolour in Two Rivers paper 300x200mm #Watercolour #Watercolor #Skye #Landscapepainting #ArtAdventCalendar
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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
A couple of bony paintings are up for sale, now I’ve passed the clingy stage I can start letting the first ones go. clairecansick.com/shop/
Fell Into The Heavens painting of a sinking skeleton, upon a wall.Bone Soup painting of a drifting skeleton, upon a wall.
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David A Parfitt RI @davidaparfittri.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Love the composition
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Gary Cook VPRI SGFA Arborealist @cookthepainter.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I’m really honoured to be part of this RI film calling for entries to their annual exhibition at Mall Galleries opening on the 25 March. Online submissions are open at mallgalleries.org.uk until 28 January . #watercolourpainting #paintings
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Malcolm Ashman @malcolm-ashman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
‘Under the Open Sky’ new #smallheads on my website
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Iain Sarjeant @iainsarjeant.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
From the archives...
Washing line growing among bright pink Rosebay Willowherb plants with the roof of a derelict croft behind.
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