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.

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.

Bridge over Kentish Fields

Well week six of dark, overcast days rolls on, leaving me to work in limited time on studies inside.

 I started working from the sky down on this, over a burnt sienna oil prepared board which had dried for a few weeks.

I finished this the next day, as shown below. This one I'll either keep, or frame to send to a gallery exhibition.

Using a limited palette.

I used a picture from morguefile.com for this as I'm unable to get outside to paint right now. I had to guess at some of the colours and detailed areas, as the picture is pretty small on the chrome book sat away from the easel, but then that's fine since I'm not looking to exactly replicate the image anyway.

  I wanted something that would dry faster than using walnut oil for a medium, so I dug out the Winsor & Newton Griffin paints. Then to add to the complication of fast drying paints, I went with a limited palette of yellow ochre, cad yellow hue, permanent rose and cobalt blue hue, with titanium white of course.