Sleeping Cow On Grass On Sunny Day - oil painting

Sleeping Cow On Grass On Sunny Day - oil painting

painting of a Sleeping Cow On Grass

This oil painting features a cow relaxing and falling asleep while resting on grass, during a hot summer in Hampshire, UK. It is based on a photograph taken in the small town of Lyndhurst, deep within the New Forest national park It is painted on stretched water colour paper and the image size is 20” x 16”. The painting can be seen at a larger scale on this link.

Brown Standing Horse Eating - WIP stages

Brown Standing Horse Eating - WIP stages

composite image of 'Brown Standing Horse Eating' in stages

This composite photograph shows work in progress stages on an oil painting of a horse. The horse was enjoying the surroundings of the New Forest, Hampshire.
The first panel shows the initial subject drawn in with brown acrylic paint on an orange (ground) base. The second panel features some of the base colours placed in again using acrylic paint. This paintwork acts as a base for the oil paints to sit on during the final application, which can be seen to be started in the third panel. The fourth panel shows the completed painting. as an experiment I decided to keep some of the base painting showing, rather than have all of the painted area 'finished'.
The final painting can be seen clearly here on this link.

Working on closeup 35

Working on closeup 35

 A small snippet of a horse painting......

WIP horse head oil painting

 

Needles From Hengistbury Head - oil painting

Needles From Hengistbury Head - oil painting

Needles From Hengistbury Head - oil painting

Hengistbury Head is featured in this painting done during May 2017. The location is on the 'spit' of land, near to the town of Christchurch in Dorset. In this coastal view we see the mixture of sand and tough grass that grows at such locations, with tyre tracks from bicycles snaking through the sand. In the distance and across Solent water are the 'needles' as featured on the coast of the Isle of Wight. It was painted and based on a photo taken on a sunny but cold December day.

The painting is done on stretched paper measuring 16” x 12” and is painted in oil paint.

The final painting can be seen here.

 

Cow Line Up In Field - acrylic painting

Cow Line Up In Field - acrylic painting

This painting shows a line up of 4 cows sitting in a field in the countryside. It is based on a photograph which had four cows lined up, but I decided to recompose them by moving them together by a small amount as they were too widely spaced out.The original location was a field I spotted whist on a trip to Lyndhurst in the New Forest, Hampshire. I do not believed it rained any time after!
The painting measures 16” x 12” and is done on paper using acrylic paint during July 2016.

Cow line up in field -12" x 16" painting

New Forest hill with cows and horses

New Forest hill with cows and horses

This painting shows a summer scene in the New Forest, Hampshire, with a hill dominating the composition. At the base of the hill can be seen a pair of cows sitting and relaxing in the sun. Up the hill on a path that winds up to the top stand a small group of horses. Unfortunately the name of the hill is unknown.

The painting is done in acrylics on a stretched canvas measuring 16” x 20”, during June 2016.

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acrylic painting - Cows and horses on New Forest hill

 

 

New Forest Lyndhurst Hampshire

New Forest Lyndhurst Hampshire 

This painting was created during October 2015 and was loosely based on a photograph taken during the summer of 2014. The scene a small hill near to Lyndhurst, a small town in the middle of the New Forest, Hampshire, UK. Many horses and ponies are to be found in the forest happily wondering around quite freely around the landscape. For the painting some of the animals were rearranged in the composition and one or two exchanged with other photographic examples. This painting measures 20” x 16” and is painted on canvas using acrylic paint.    
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Horses on Hill, Lyndhurst, hampshire

Cows in a field in the Devon countryside

Cows in a field in the Devon countryside

 

This painting, showing a group of cows in the countryside was painted in June 2014. The location is in Devon, UK, set during a very hot summer, near to the town of Seaton. The reference photograph on which the painting is based upon, was taken from the 'Seaton Tramway'. In the adjacent field can be seen bundles of wheat wrapped in plastic for transportation.

The painting is done in oils on an acrylic base, on a canvas board measuring 20” x 16”.

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Cows in a field in the Devon countryside – oil painting

Sheep in a field in the Devon countryside

Sheep in a field in the Devon countryside

 

This painting, showing a flock of sheep on a hillside in the countryside was painted in August 2014. The location is in Devon, UK, set during a very hot summer, near to the town of Seaton. Despite the feeling of endless countryside beyond the distant trees, the southern coastline of the UK is just behind.

The painting is done in oils on an acrylic base, on a canvas board measuring 20” x 16”.

Sheep in a field in the Devon countryside – oil painting 20” x 16”

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Black And White Pig on Farm

Black And White Pig on Farm 

This oil painting is done on a canvas board measuring 10” x 12”, on top of a rough acrylic painting. The subject is a black and white pig wondering around a muddy pen on a farm in Hampshire. The painting took less than a day to do, and was done in June 2014.

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Black And White Pig on Farm-oil painting

Hillier Gardens Grass and Trees

Hillier Gardens Grass and Trees

Hillier gardens was started by Sir Harold Hillier in the 1960s, becoming a charitable trust in the 1970s. It covers an area of 180 acres, contains 42,000 trees and shrubs and is to be found near to Romsey, Hampshire in the UK.

The scene depicted in the painting is a spectacular view offered from one of the public huts where the public can rest and enjoy looking across miles of countryside in to Wiltshire. This is a scene that often captures the artist eye upon visiting.

The painting is done in oils, in a one day sitting on a canvas board measuring 10” x 12”, using a red acrylic ground, and painting 'wet in to wet'.

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Hillier Gardens Grass and Trees-oil painting

Landscape with man driving horse and cart

This digital painting shows a man driving a horse pulling a cart through an imaginary landscape with very large mountains in the background, during a summer evening. Painted in photoshop.

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Landscape with man driving horse and cart

 

Southampton Palmerston Park Autumn sun

Southampton Palmerston Park Autumn sun

 

This painting was done in febuary 2013 as a small exercise, on a piece of canvas board, sized at 10” x 12”. It is based on a photo taken of a corner of Palmerston Park, in the centre of Southampton, during the Autumn of 2011. I was struck by the colour full scene illuminated by the low autumn light. The park is right next to a busy traffic junction, which cannot be seen from this angle. 

Southampton Palmerston Park Autumn sun

Southampton People in Park

Southampton People in Park

This Oil painting was done in May 2013, and shows a young family out in a Southampton Park during an Autumn.

The painting is created on canvas board, sized to 16” x 20”. Initially the board is painted a bright, Acrylic red ground. Then the actual painting, done in Oil, is worked on top.

Southampton People in Park

 

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Cow in grass

Cow in grass

This painting is based on a small section of a larger photograph. It featured a number of cows in a grassy field, and I picked this one as it was looking at the camera, making a more interesting pose. It was planned that the long grass would make a nice, soft background for the subject. The painting was done in less than a day in oil paint, on a canvas board measuring 10” x 12”. Initially the canvas was painted in a bright red coat of acrylic paint, before drawing the composition out with brown acrylic paint, the oil painting itself on top.
Painted in early 2013.

Cow in grass

Single chicken walking around on grass

Single chicken walking around on grass

This painting of a single chicken walking on grass, was painted at the end of 2012. It is painted in oils,on a red acrylic ground, in one six hour sitting. The size of the image is 10” x 8” and is created on a canvas board.
I took a number of photos of chickens during the previous summer, with the aim of creating a fresh painting of the bird. I added more grass in to the background to make the chicken stand out better and give the painting a more organic look, rather than the concrete surface it was walking on in reality.

Single chicken walking around on grass

fat cow running

fat cow running

This oil painting shows a large, hairy cow running through a field. The cow was taken from a photograph shot during the summer of 2012. It was originally seen on a road but I changed the background for a countryside view instead. The painting is roughly painted in oils on to canvas board measuring 12” x 10”, and was painted in Sept 2012.

fat cow running oil painting