This was painted in photoshop during december 2010, to an A4 size format which I often use. This type of subject is always a nod to disneys 'little mermaid'. The positioning of the arm avoids difficulties!
Oil painting collection 02 Bournemouth Sea front
people on Bournemouth beach
Bournemouth Air festival
Boy standing in sea
These 3 oil paintings were painted august-sept 2010 and are of roughly the same location.
The Air festival has now become a regular event at bournemouth and this image features the "Breitling wing walkers",one of the numerous events, though the women walking are on the other side of the plane and cannot be seen here! The location is 'overcliff drive, overlooking the beach.
The beach scene shows crowds on the beach. In reality there are often even more people on the beach than pictured here. The arches of the pier are in the background.
The solo boy in the water is my nephew!
from the website...
people on Bournemouth beach
This was painted in oils on a 16"x 20" canvas, during 2010. It depicts
the beach at Bournemouth, in Dorset, UK, during the summer. The building
in the background is part of the pier at Bournemouth and the beach
itself if often crowded during the summer. It offers several miles of
clean, golden sand. The painting is based on a number of photographs
that I took, and then rearranged in photoshop to create one
good,balanced composition. This is then scaled up and printed out, and
transferred to the canvas by hand drawing. Then the drawing is redrawn
using a fine brush and brown acrylic paint. On top of this the final oil
paint layers are applied over a few weeks. My favorite areas while
working on the oil painting was the deckchair on the right and the woman
with a black top on the left.
Bournemouth Air festival
Bournemouth has been having an air show in late august for a couple of
years. This painting is taken from a series photographs taken during the
second festival year. Using photoshop I created a composite picture to
use as the basis for this painting. The location is on overcliff drive,
that looks out over the beaches at Bournemouth down below. I used
another photo of the planes and positioned them in this location and
jiggled the spectators around to get a nice composition. The distinctive
biplanes are used in the Breitling Wingwalkers display, where a woman,
on each top part of the plane wing, stands and poses while the planes
perform acrobatic displays. The painting is done in oils on a smaller
than usual canvas, measuring 12" x 16"
This digital illustration of a giant squid attacking a ship was painted to A4 size in photoshop. The old steam ship is in a storm with large waves and lashing rain. The tentacles of the squid are trying to capsize the ship. A sailor can be seen firing a gun at the giant sea creature.
The drawing is hand done in photoshop on one floating layer and the painting then created behind. As the painting becomes more defined the drawing layer is removed as it it becomes easier to paint the details directly rather than draw them first. I set the painting at night and in a storm as I believed it would be exciting, seeing the crashing waves and the rain bouncing off the elements in the image. The tilting of the boat, pulled by the monster helps to add more drama to the composition. Ths splashes of rain on the subjects creates a slight 'halo' which helps to define them against the dark sky.
This is painted Painted in 2008.
Mermaid underwater city
