Over a year since I posted here. I've not stopped painting, but I do suck at promotion. Strangely, I even enjoy writing, so I thought I'd make more of an effort to blog again.

 This year I've painted heaps of still lives, partly because I could paint small, fast, convenient...but also to concentrate on textures and colours that are out of reach for landscape painting. I've even tentatively painted some florals. So I'll add some of that all here.

  Here is a sunflower painting on linen, painted in my kitchen the other day.

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I painted a cornfield yesterday, one of my favourite things, and may paint up a larger version to place on artfinder today or tomorrow. If I don't get too distracted and paint something else entirely :D

The View to Winchelsea, and Kingsgate beach.

Another from back in January. This is the view from a field of harvested stubble, that looks back towards Winchelsea. Another 10x12, oil on oil primed board.

 On the 27th I returned to a view of one of the chalk cliffs here in SE Kent.

This is 10x12 oil on board, but I later enlarged this to see how it would appear in a slightly bigger scale.

Last few months, a round up. Wickhambreaux cottages.

Well, I have epically failed to keep up to date with the blog! I have made painting notes as I've gone along , so I can add my pictures from the missing months in :D

January 10th

I painted from a photo, some old thatched roof cottages in Wickhambreaux. These can't be painted from this angle since you'd be swiftly run over.  The first day I got as far as the initial drawing in on the burnt sienna oil primed board.

The painting was finished the next day, 10x12 inches. The sky seems to lose some of the colour in the photographs here.

Wickhambreaux back in the summer.

I haven't managed to paint much still through dark December, but I hadn't realised it had been quite so long since the last post !

  One area near to me has has all the elements of traditional English countryside, is around the River Stour in East Kent. A footpath on the out-skirts of Wickhambreaux has streams, weirs, cattle, towering trees and swans.

  Again there was a burnt sienna under painting, this being as far as I got day one.

This is the final work, with swan.

Getting seasonal with a wintery snow scene.

Here I've gone for a larger 12 x 16 board again, to try to get used to that sizing. The theme is winter sun, there is a surprising amount of yellow and red in the trees despite the blue overall cast.

 At this stage it's mostly finished, I'll have another look tomorrow to see what need's to be done, and get it signed.


 

Close up 

As always for now, these are for sale through eBay at CrightonFineArts. 

In the New Year I'm hoping to have an exhibition, I will update with information regarding that when I get the dates.

Making a mountain out of a mountain painting.

  This picture was a bit of a struggle. It's been so dark that I had to paint in stages, but it at least gave me time to make some notes about what needed to go into the picture on the next session. I also started on a larger board of 12 x 16 inches, so it seemed like a lot more to cover compared to the usual pieces.

   The initial wash in.

A bit further along. 

End of the first day.

Several days later, I was able to finish it.

 Sky close up.

St Margaret's Bay (again), oil on board.

 Another view of St. Margaret's Bay near Dover. This one was painted pretty quick, I didn't remember to photograph as I went along and so I only have the final painting to show here.


   No coloured under-painting on this one, size 10 x 12 inches.
To be listed on ebay under CrightonFineArts.