Plein air painting 68

Shamrock Quay in the Northam area of Southampton, UK, is home to many marine based industries and places for placing various vessels in dry storage. One Friday afternoon in August 2022, this boat was painted in the late summer sun, surrounded by pieces of equipment used to allow a boat to be held upright out of water. Painted in oils on mounting board sized at 12" x 9.5".

Winter Building Site Breaker - oil painting

Winter Building Site Breaker - oil painting

Winter Building Site Breaker - oil painting

During November 2017 this painting was created showing a scene on a building site within central Southampton, UK. The digger like machine is a breaker, which is being used to break up the old concrete on the site before building commences. It is a wet and damp winters day and some workmen are looking at a small hole during the work. In the background can be seen some of the common landmarks of the area, though this scene has now disappeared and some new flats and houses now occupy the land.

The painting is done on mounting board using oil paints, and the image is sized at 20” x 28”.

The finished painting can be seen more clearly here.

 

Winter Building Site Breaker - WIP stages

Winter Building Site Breaker - WIP stages

Winter Building Site Breaker - painting in stages

This painting, showing a 'breaker' on a building site was completed in November 2017. The wet and damp location is Northam, in East Southampton. 
The above image shows 3 stages of the artwork, which is painted in oils on mounting board, sized at 20" x 28".
In the first panel can be seen the initial drawing, done in brown acrylic paint over a reddish ground. Some white paint is also used to help suggest areas of light tone. The second panel now shows some base (darker) colours applied using oil paints on top of the acrylic, tonal painting. Also at this stage more detail is suggested. In the last panel can be viewed the final oil painting, correcting tone, colour and detail. This final piece of artwork can be viewed in greater detail via this link.

Christmas greetings to my followers 2017

Christmas greetings to my followers 2017

scifi xmas tree concept art

Greetings to all my followers over the year, and I wish you all success and happiness for the coming year!

The artwork was painted digitally in 'auto sketchbook pro' over a period of a few days during Dec 2017, and was generally made up as I went along, although I did have a basic idea in my head. It has a sci fi feel,using an industrial setting and impossible scale.
This panel shows the WIP on the design from the original very rough sketch to the finished art.

WIP scifi xmas tree greetings card digital art

 

boats on jacks in yard - water color sketch

boats on jacks in yard - water color sketch

This water colour sketch was done on a sunny June day. It shows a number of boats all standing on jacks and resting in the sunshine. The location is a local boat yard in Northam, Southampton which is situated on the east side of the city and has the River Itchen running beside it. When I was looking for a subject to paint I found this gap in a line of boats in the yard and thought I would plonk myself there to view the scene as shown, as it is unlikely that space would be used for anything while I'm sitting there for an hour. But just I had finished doing a rough drawing and preparing the paints one of the yard workers said that I would have to move because a boat was imminently about to fill that space. 5 mins later once the boat had been maneuvered in I was then able to sit myself in a space a few feet away from my original position and carry on, though it is strange how a slight shift in position can throw your observations as I was now looking at a scene which the drawing did not fully show.

collection of boats on jacks - water color sketch

Loading ships Southampton Docks - water color sketch

Loading ships Southampton Docks - water color sketch

This sketch was done during an afternoon in June with the weather going from cloudy to sunny quite frequently. It shows a scene at Southampton east docks with two large 'box' like ships loading up with cars. The ship in the distance is moored on a an angled section of the dock. The closer one has its stern straight on and the ramp is connected to it for driving cars on or off.  All the cars are held in a purpose built multi storey car park, shown on the right, for a temporary period until transported away from the docks, or on to the ship for export. The red  'blob' is not a funnel but an emergency life boat that is shot away from the ship when launched in an emergency. The small water colour painting is just under A4 size and done on cheap paper.

Ships loading at Southampton east docks - water colour sketch

Northam boat yards and old boats

Northam boat yards and old boats

 

This painting shows the industrial area by the River Itchen at Northam, Southampton, as viewed from the Bittern side. Various boat yards can be seen on the left and on the right are cranes that work at the scrapyard, used for loading scrap metal on to a ship at least once a week. The tide is out and this reveals a carpet of green algae across the mudflats, inter-cut with small streams ow water running through it. A famous feature of the river is the large amount of old boat wrecks dotted around, a number exposed at low tide.

The painting is painted in acrylics over a few days, on a board measuring 16” x 20”, during April 2014. 

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Northam boat yards and old boats-acrylic painting

Southampton cargo ship as seen at Weston Shore

Southampton cargo ship as seen at Weston Shore

This oil painting was done in March 2014 on a small 10” x 12” canvas board. It shows a scene one sunny morning of a 'Wallenius Wilhelmsen' cargo ship, loading up with cars, docked at the Eastern Docks at Southampton. The view is a typical one as seen from Weston Shore on the opposite side of Southampton Water and the large grain silos are a distinctive landmark in the area.

Southampton cargo ship as seen at Weston Shore-oil painting

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