Bishopsgate London - oil painting

Bishopsgate London - oil painting

London, Bishopsgate finishd oil painting

Painted in May 2019, a busy view of Bishopsgate is shown. This is a main road on the edge of financial district of the city of London, and Liverpool Street station is seconds away on the right hand side of the street. A number of pedestrians can be seen to be crossing the road which appears to be full buses. It is a sunny day so plenty of shadows are cast on the ground. Interestingly light is being bounced around by some of the large glass fronted buildings so further shadows are cast leading to quite complex patterns on the road. The skyline is dominated by tall buildings so unusually there is no sky visible in the London landscape view.

This landscape oil painting is done on mounting board, with an area of 33” x 24”.

A clearer view of the painting can be seen here on this external site.

 

Flyer and business card 2019

Flyer and business card 2019

I recently produced a flyer (A5 size) and a buisness card for my 'fine art' operations. They have come out quite well. Initially the business card was done first but was quite expensive for a total of 100, so I decided to create a flyer that does partly the same job, but cost a lot less. The 500 of these produced was almost half the price of the 100 business cards, and the flyer is double sided too, so I expect to hand out more of these. I expect when new supplies of both are done the designs/ images will be updated to more current work, possibly.

Working on closeup 64

Working on closeup 64

A small snippet of a still life/ portrait subject...

Group Of Trees In The New Forest - WIP stages

Group Of Trees In The New Forest - WIP stages

Steps in the creation of 'Group of Trees in the New Forest' painting.

A peaceful scene in the New Forest, set in the county of Hampshire, Southern England, is the subject of this work. It was painted in June 2019, on mounting board sized at 20” x 16”, using oils.

The picture shows a WIP stages view of how the painting was created. The first panel shows initial work on drawing in the scene details using dark brown acrylic paint on a lighter brown base colour. Basic tonal areas are added in to show the lights and darks within the composition.. Once this is dry which is only a short time for acrylic paint, the oil paints are opened up and basic areas of colours and tonal areas are applied with thinned out paint on top of the acrylic drawing as seen in the second panel. This layer acts as a guide, or underpainting for the later process, which is shown in the third panel, where the paint is now thicker and applied in a more meaningful manner, with the correct colours and details laid on top. Final the last panel depicts the finished oil painting.

The artwork can be viewed in greater detail on this link to an external site.

Woman Ceramicist at work in her studio - oil painting

Woman Ceramicist at work in her studio - oil painting

The completed painting of a Ceramicist at work.

A Southampton ceramicist known as Leo Deville is depicted in this painting, produced in May 2019. She is shown working at her studio, surrounded by the tools she often uses during her creating process. As well as many brushes and old jam jars peppering the scene, an animal vertebrae (off a donkey) can be seen. Leo is pictured busy working on one of her stylized clay busts.

The ceramicist says “I create ceramic stylized faces, figures, sculptures and jewellery that can include coloured wires, textiles, beads & paint.” She also paints in acrylics and oils. Her website can be found at https://www.leodeville.co.uk/ .

This oil painting is sized at 33x 23.5”, and is painted on treated acid free mounting board.

The portrait can be viewed in greater detail hereXXX.