Wednesday 27 November 2019

London Cockspur St bus stop - WIP stages

 London Cockspur St bus stop - WIP stages

M P Davey London bus stop painting in stages
Stages of development of a London street painting.
A wet summers day at Cockspur Street, central London is the subject of this landscape painting, featuring two famous red London buses at a bus stop very close to Trafalgar Square. A number of tourists, having disembarked of the leading are presumably planning a trip to the nearby square.

The image above shows 4 stages of the creation process regarding the artwork. The first panel features the initial stage with the scene drawn out in brown acrylic on a yellow ochre wash, also done with acrylic paint. To the right in the second panel stage, a wash of diluted oil paint has been applied to suggest basic colour choices. This will act as underpainting and will be, as shown in the third panel painted over with thicker paint, to the correct colour and tonal values. Also in this layer of painting, finer details are applied. The final panel shows the completed London street scene painting, which can be seen on this link in better detail.

Sunday 17 November 2019

Working on closeup 69

Working on closeup 69

WIP southampton common tree art Martin Davey
 A small snippet of tree in Autumn oil painting...