Art Blog - Oils

A small(7x5) study of blue buoy off Back Beach…


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Afternoon sunlight on Teignmouth seawall…


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Hisley Bridge, over the River Bovey on Dartmoor…


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This is my first outdoor oil painting of the year…


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Carlton Mill beside the River Trent, an oil painting, started on-site and finished at home last September…


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Unpacking the art box from a recent move including some oil paintings that I have not show before…


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Rain has been a feature of the weather so far this year and I wanted to capture this in a painting…


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Hope’s Nose viewed from Teignmouth, this time in oils…


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I have tried to paint the Southwell Trail on a number of occasions over the summer but found it very difficult…


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A second attempt at the Patchings lake scene…


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One from last month, using oil paints outdoors for the first time at the Longshaw Estate…


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I would normally use watercolour or perhaps gouache for outdoor painting, so working in oils at Patchings Art Centre’s NGS painting day was a very different experience.


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Still life oil painting from a composite image (thanks to Liz for the reference)…


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The first landscape oil painting is now complete (see my previous post 20th March 2023). The scene was painted from a photography taken last year and features an autumnal willow on the banks of the River Trent near to Fiskerton.


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Using oil paints is one of my development goals for 2023. The aim is being able to adapt to the subjects I want to paint which, at this moment in time, is aspects of my local landscape.


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