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Working on closeup 29

Snippet of a small oil painting featuring the Hampshire coast....

New Forest Trees With Shadows - acrylic painting

New Forest Trees With Shadows - acrylic painting

 

New Forest Trees With Shadows - acrylic painting

The subject of this painting is a section of the New Forest, near to Ashurst and the main railway line between Bournemouth and Southampton. The tall fir trees make a dark scene with the summer light falling across the view, highlighting the trunks and picking out details of the surrounding trees.

It is painted in acrylics on stretched watercolour paper, measuring 16” x 12”. It took a few days to paint but actually took a few months to complete due to other projects, and was not completed until early May 2017. 

The final painting can be seen here.

Beach Boat Under Cover - acrylic painting

Beach Boat Under Cover - acrylic painting

Beach boat under cover - acrylic painting

This painting shows a scene at Hengistbury Head, near to Christchurch in Dorset, on the south coast of the UK. A boat, one of many at the location, is under cover and out of use on this hot summers day. The beach looks on to Christchurch bay, with the town on the other side. In the back ground of this painting can be seen Mudeford, a small town on the suburbs of Christchurch.

The painting is done in acrylics on stretched paper, to a size of 16” x 12” during mid March 2017, and can be seen here.

Spring Girl - digital painting

Spring Girl - digital painting

Spring Girl - digital painting

This humorous subject was painted during Febuary 2017, and features a 'Spring Girl' character in a field, during the season of Spring, and surrounded by flowers and insects of the period. It is painted digitally using 'Auto sketchbook pro' on a windows drawing device.

The final illustration can be seen here.https://martin-davey.pixels.com/featured/spring-girl-martin-davey.html

Fishing boat at Mudeford Quay WIP stages

Fishing boat at Mudeford Quay WIP stages

'Fishing at Mudeford Quay' WIP in stages oil painting

The above picture shows four stages of the creation of the painting 'Fishing Boat at Mudeford Quay, a marine scene set in Christchurch, Dorset. The first panel shows the drawing of the scene done in brown acrylic paint on a yellow ochre colour base. This is followed by the under-painting, done in acrylic paint which lays out the basic blocks of colour within the scene, which are deliberately painted slightly darker than the intended tone.The purpose of the under-painting is to give the final applied colours something to work against.
In the third panel work has progressed on to the initial oil painted colours, mainly starting from the top of the picture. In the final panel, the finished painting can be seen, which can be seen clearly at a larger scale, here. The oil painting is done on mounting board sized at 50cm x 70cm and was completed during June 2017.

Working on closeup 28

Working on closeup 28

A small snippet of a new forest based painting....

Pines in New Forest Shade WIP stages

Pines in New Forest Shade WIP stages

'Pines in new Forest' WIP stages art

This painting was completed in June 2017. Shown is a shady scene in the New Forest, Hampshire with tall pine trees and ferns on the ground in the shade.
The first panel shows the drawing created in brown acrylic paint on a yellow ochre  base colour. In the second panel the basic tones have been applied as the under-painting. Moving on in the third panel more detail and lighter tones have been added, with the final panel showing the completed work. The whole painting is done in acrylics on a piece of mounting board measuring 16" x 20". A clearer view of the finished art work can be seen here.