Lepe Beach Windy Winter Day - acrylic painting

Lepe Beach Windy Winter Day - acrylic painting

Lepe Beach Windy Winter Day - acrylic painting

This acrylic painting was created during December 2016 just before Christmas. It is painted on paper sized at 16” x 12”. Shown is a scene on a cold, winters day at Lepe, an area of coastline on the South of England in the county of Hampshire. A mother and daughter can be seen on the seashore, a 'castle' shaped bucket to the side. On the sea can be seen a man on a water-ski being propelled by a kite. In the far distance past the active, wavy sea, can be seen the Isle of Wight. 

The painting can be seen in close up here.

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

Beach groin with autumn waves oil painting

Beach groin with autumn waves oil painting

Beach Groin with autumn waves- oil 16" x 12"

This painting was finished in early December 2016 and shows a view of a large wooden groin on the sandy beach at Bournemouth, Dorset on the south of England coast. The beach is largely empty so the dominant noise is the sea crawling up the wet sand and the waves brushing along the damp wooden groin. It is set during autumn and is based on a photo taken a number of years previously. It measures 16" x 12" and is painted in oils on an acrylic under-painting, done on stretched paper. The finished painting can be seen clearly here.
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Beach groin with autumn waves oil painting WIP

Beach groin with autumn waves oil painting WIP

WIP oil painting beach groin Bournemouth

The photo show work in stages of an oil painting showing a wooden groin situated on Bournemouth beach, Dorset, on the south coast of England. The time of year is autumn so the light is not as powerful a few months later on the deserted beach.
The first panel shows an orange acrylic wash on paper with the drawing applied with brown acrylic paint. In the second panel, 'underpainting' has taken place in which darker versions of the final colours are applied, using acrylic paint, which then acts as a base for the final, finished paint application. This final stage is shown in the final panel where the final detailed paint application is done in oil paint rather than acrylic paint in this case. I felt that oils suit natural subjects and help with colour blending and creating the feeling of natural light. Acrylics works well for man made subjects, for instance architecture.
The final finished painting can be seen here. 
#beach #WIP #artist #oilpainting #Bournemouth

working on closeup 18

working on closeup 18

A small snippet of a marine based oil painting of a Dorset beach.... 

WIP of groin on Bournemouth Beach oil painting

working on close-up 12

working on close-up 12

A closeup snippet of the latest painting which is of a marine flavour and painted in oils....

WIP close up of a wave painted in oils

Wave And Colourful pebbles WIP

Wave And Colourful pebbles WIP

This image shows various stages of progress on the recent painting 'Wave And Colorful Pebbles'. The first panel shows the basic drawing, done in brown acrylic on an orange ground or base colour. The second panel shows base/ dark colours added, done with acrylic paint.The final shows the completed acrylic art which was done on stretched paper sized at 16" x 12", during the summer of 2016.
The completed painting can be seen here.
#painting #sea #pebbles #coastal #artist

stages of work on the 'Wave and colourful pebbles' acrylic painting.

Working on close-up 09

Working on close-up 09

A small snippet from a new painting of the sea lapping against a stony shore , in the works....

WIP of waves on the sea painting

beach groynes at Bournemouth Beach painting WIP

beach groynes at Bournemouth Beach painting - WIP

The photo shows a painting done last week of a groyne at Bournemouth Beach (Southborne end). It was based on a photo taken a fortnight before in late September during an indian summer. 
I did the painting in oils on a 12" x 10" canvas board, and is now left to dry before having a proper photo taken of it in a few weeks time.

Groyne at Bournemouth beach

This second image shows the painting in stages. In the first panel is the basic brown line drawing, done in acrylic paint on a red ground (shown in B/W) for clarity. The second one shows an acrylic layer of base colours which gives me something to aim at when painting the proper top level (third panel) in oils.
The final painting can be seen here in detail.

WIP of the groyne on Bournemouth Beach in stages

Bournemouth Pier summer morning from cliff top

Bournemouth Pier summer morning from cliff top 

This small 10” x12” oil painting was done in March 2014. It shows the famous pier at Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, from the cliff tops during a summers morning. Already some holiday makers are settling down on the beach which will become very busy as the day goes on. In the distance can be seen the Purbecks.

The pier, in its current form, was built in the 1950s and features a theatre. 

Bournemouth Pier summer morning from cliff top-oil painting

 

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