View from Mamhead Point on a sunny December morning, the photo hasn’t picked this up and it looks a bit overcast? The composition was simple enough, it was all of the different shades of green that would be the problem. Burnt sienna Cerulean Blue Ultramarine Blue Cadmium Yellow, orange yellow, dark greens Yellow Ochre, earth […]
MATERAILS Painting surface for Oil and Acrylic 6mm MDF cut to size, standard sizes 14 x 18” 12 x 16” 10 x 8” 6 x 8”. Two coats of white gesso primer with large brush Oil and Acrylic paints Windsor & newton artists oil colour. Liquitex acrylic artists colour Ultramarine blue, Burnt sienna, Cadmium yellow […]
The inspiration for this large landscape was a smaller plein air painting Blustery Day 12 x 16″. I needed to find a canvas/ mdf size to match the 12 x 16″ but bigger, 18 x 24″ was a good size. I started by sketching in the basic shapes on the 18 x 24″ in the […]
Standing on the quayside at Kingswear looking towards the Royal navel collage at Dartmouth, I started to paint. The weather was changeable so I needed to move fast, the ground colour was mid grey which helped because all of the greys in the sky and land which would show through at the end of the […]
It was a windy day but surprisingly the sea was flat. I took shelter by the coast guard building from the wind and started to paint, I put the cliff in the picture to add balance, contrast and perspective. The cliff could look like a big black mass but by keeping some cool colour in […]
Painted on location in mid summer. The big Wheel is only running in the spring/summer so its nice to catch it in a painting then. The scene is captured “against the light” with the sparkle on the water. This painting is for sale at Davidson Gallery Totnes Tonal values For the sparkle on the water […]