Posts Tagged ‘landscapes’

New Oil painting – Horsley, Evening Light

February 11, 2011 by · Comments Off
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This is a new oil painting of the Northumberland village of Horsley, looking west along the main street. The winter sun was very low and everything was in deep shadow except where the orange glow touched the sides of the buildings. The trick here was to keep the oranges not too high in value; they are [...]

Sunset painting from start to finish – Done

August 18, 2010 by · Comments Off
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This is the 3rd and final section detailing the progress of my latest sunset oil painting. Part 1 and Part 2 are here. The last few touches have been made to the painting. I decided it didn’t need much more doing to it and had satisfied my original idea. I added a bit more orange [...]

New sunset oil painting

August 16, 2010 by · Comments Off
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This is my latest oil painting. Its on a canvas sheet (305mm x 250mm). I started it off by covering it in thick acrylic paint which I applied with a brush; the brush strokes themselves adding to the texture of the ground. Twenty four hours later the arcylic was dry and I was able to [...]

Sunset painting from start to finish – Part 2

August 10, 2010 by · Comments Off
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This is the second part detailing the progress of my latest oil painting. With the colours and basic areas established I next add some of the distant clouds visible at the horizon and around the centre of interest, which in this case is the sun. The clouds are darker at the edges of the painting, [...]

Sunset painting from start to finish – Part 1

August 8, 2010 by · Comments Off
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For this painting I am using a small box canvas 10 x 8 inches and 3/4 inches deep. I tend to use different approaches for each painting depending on the overall end product I am trying to achieve. I also from the outset try and get a full concept of what I am trying to [...]