Category: Oil

  • 22 – Kingfisher (work in progress)

    22 – Kingfisher (work in progress)

    Back to oil after a break. I now have a decent easel which makes painting a lot more comfortable. Working from a photo taken by someone else that I found online. Not aiming to copy it but using it for reference

  • 3 – Langdale Pikes from Blea Tarn

    3 – Langdale Pikes from Blea Tarn

    Part way through the process I was particularly interested in capturing the sun on the distant hills. I had about 3 attempts at the sky before I had enough.

  • 2 – Start Point

    2 – Start Point

    Oil on canvas and a view I will come back to. A very special place in South Devon. Shows the perils of using a pre-painted background sea and sky and putting landscape over the horizon. Also horizons ought to be a bit more horizontal. Took a few hours and the cliffs proved a particular challenge.…

  • 1- Brailes Hill

    1- Brailes Hill

    Oil on canvas – layed on thick. Brailes Hill in South Warwickshire very near where I lived for most of my childhood.