Posts Tagged ‘sunsets’

Seascape – Red Sunset

February 4, 2011 by · 3 Comments
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Recently I did a commission where the client wanted a predominantly black and white seascape painting with a splash of red; low light and stormy clouds. With such a simple brief I was left with a lot of scope for creation but decided to keep it fairly straightforward. I used acrylic paint to produce the [...]

Sunset oil painting – Evening Glow

November 15, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Sunset/Landscape oil painting entitled “Evening Glow” 16 x 12 inch canvas board requires mounting and framing. Available for £55. Postage to the UK is FREE. Additional postage rates dependant on location. See FAQ for full details. This one was a bit tricky to get the dark hills at just the right values to create a [...]

New oil paintings added to Steve’s Gallery

September 10, 2010 by · Comments Off
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I have added two new oil paintings to the main Driver Art Website under Steve’s Gallery: The first one is “Nearing the End” the development of which was shown earlier in this blog. It is oil on a box canvas 12 x 9 x 0.75 inches and ready to hang. I am selling it for [...]

Sunset painting from start to finish – Done

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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

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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 [...]