I’ve been posting updates on this painting on the pages of this blog. Well, here’s the finished painting. You can see it (and buy it!) in my gallery. By the way, for some strange reason the colours in the photograph above are quite strong compared with the original, which is somewhat more subdued. I’ll try to take a more representative photo later.
I’ve posted some ‘work in progress’ photos of this painting over the last month but it’s now finished and you can see it in my gallery. The viewpoint is almost exactly the same as the Orange Sunset painting.
I’m trying to capture the drama of a winter storm in this painting. The foreground sea will be fun to paint with dribble, splashes and runs of colour.
I’ve got about three paintings ‘in progress’ at the moment. Here’s a Blackpool Sunset. I’m working very hard to make it all look effortless – hence there have been a lot of re-paints and over-paints. Hopefully the finished painting will look like I dashed it off in a single (but highly inspired!) session.
This is the latest stage of a portrait commission I’m creating as a wedding present. Plenty more work to do but it’s shaping up nicely.
Another couple of sketches from last week’s life class.
A few quick snaps of the sketches from last Tuesday’s life class.
I’ve added a figure in the right foreground area of the painting. Hopefully this will help the composition as this was an empty area before.
Last Saturday it rained hard all day. By 4.00pm I was desperate to get out of the house but didn’t expect to find anything to paint. But looking out over the reservoir towards the stand of trees on the other side I realised that I had the starting point for a painting.
So my plan is to use these images and the other photos I took as the starting point for a painting, or maybe several paintings, based on the muted, pearly grey landscape I saw that day.
Here’s another update on the Rock Pools painting I’m on with at the moment. I’m trying to leave the rocks quite freely painted but keep the figures quite precise. This photo has a rather blue tint that the original doesn’t have.
