Sea Water and Rocks - oil painting stages WIP

Sea Water and Rocks - oil painting stages WIP

This composite photograph shows three stages of a painting featuring rocks on a sandy beach and where they meet the sea water.
The first panel shows a rough sketch drawn in brown acrylic paint on an orange ground wash. In the second panel basic under-painting, using acrylics, has been added which acts as a guide to the following layer. These colours are usually a bit darker than the intended final colours and there is a lack of detail at this stage. The final panel shows the finish painting. At this stage the painting is done in oil paint with all of the details added. The painting is 20" x 16" and is done on paper.
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Sea Water and Rocks - WIP stages oil painting

Exploring New Landscape Spaceship - digital painting

Exploring New Landscape Spaceship - digital painting

Exploring New Landscape Spaceship - digital painting

A large spaceship is hovering in the air over an idyllic countryside on an Earth like planet. A small scout ship has already landed and one of the exploring occupants is outside the ship and admiring the view.

This digital painting was created during Christmas 2016 using the 'Auto Sketchbook pro' application, with some additional work and colour grading done within Photoshop.

http://martin-davey.pixels.com/featured/exploring-new-landscape-spaceship-martin-davey.html

Horses in Countryside Snow - digital painting

Horses in Countryside Snow - digital painting

Horses in Countryside Snow - digital painting

This countryside themed painting was created during early January 2017. Depicted in the painting is a countryside scene in the midst of winter on a crisp snowy day with bright sunshine and blue skies.Two horses are about taking in the changes to their normally grassy landscape. 

This is a subject I would normally painting in oils or acrylic paint but here it is painted digitally on a computer, the scene itself is just made up. The software used is ' Auto Sketchbook pro', with a small amount of texture details added in photoshop, plus some regrading colour wise to finish off the painting.

http://martin-davey.pixels.com/featured/horses-in-countryside-snow-martin-davey.html

working on closeup 20

working on closeup 20

 A small snippet of a painting featuring the sea and sea shore meeting.... 

At work on seascape oil painting

Winter Hilliers Garden oil painting WIP

Winter Hilliers Garden oil painting WIP

WIP Hillier Gardens at winter oil painting

This picture shows three stages of a recent painting done that depicts a lake during a bright and sunny winters day. The location is Hilliers gardens, near to Romsey, in the county of Hampshire. The lake is probably the centerpiece of the gardens and provides a wonderful view any time of the year and has been painted by myself a number of times.
In the first panel can be seen the line drawing done in brown acrylic paint on a red acrylic ground or wash. The second panel shows dark colours and tones applied using acrylic paint to show the relative positions of colours and helps to assess the overall balance of the painting. The colours are kept dark as they act as a 'underpainting' level for the next level, as shown in the last panel which shows the finished painting. Here the final, tonally correct colours are applied, in this case in oils as I find that this 'natural' subject suits the medium of oils well. The finished painting can be seen in detail here.
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