Quick sketch

Acrylic on paper. 1980s

THE POND

Oil on Wooden panel.

Landscape

Wacom Tablet,Corel Painter Classic yesterday!
I feel painting by computer more tricks than art
but it passes the time.

Beach unfished

Oil on board. cliffs need rehash and tightening up,I think the tone and composition about right. Am using quick drying oils (artisan) so can get straight on to it tomorrow.

Welsh valley. Oil on board

a view of the sea

Oil on an old overpainted panel. painted sometime 1980s

WILTSHIRE LANDSCAPE

painted on wacom tablet Sept 2009

Sea and beach

Oil on board 1970s

FUNFAIR

Acrylic on board

Wales

Oil on board

20minute sketch

HILLS AND TREES

Oil on board 1990s

landscapes

Both these paintings were part emulsion and part acrylic

both painted on wooden panels.

Sketch book

Acrylic. on wood panel 1975 (hangs in my bathroom!)

High tide

Oil on canvas. June 2009

Sea and houses

Oil on board..........repaint 2009

Oil on board............1995

Fairground

English countryside

Another Wacom Tablet picture.Would have made a good 1930s style London Transport travel poster.

beach view

Oil on canvas. 1968

Boathouse

Wacom tablet

sea and land

Oil on board. bit broody,tried to make the sand look wet.painted a couple of years ago or so.memories of Cornwall.

Boatyard

Painted in the mid 60s.............oil on panel
memories of Essex

View from studio widow

Oils..........1990s Wales.
trying to get the coolness of the woods.
Not easy as I cant handle greens.

Essex marshland

This is a computer painting using"painter Classic" and a Wacom tablet.
This is painting the easy way. Mixing paints very much the same as real painting and Classic Paint give you a selection of brushes and pencils to use through an electronic pen on to tablet.It however doesn't give you a canvas to hold or the same amount of satisfaction.Its a bit like using digital cameras and photoshop instead of a darkroom,much easier but less fun.

Sketch book

20 minute pose

Estuary...cornwall

Oils............2002

tree

acrylic on panel. 1980s

Studio cottage in Wales

 Oil on canvas

rough sketch

1980s Oil on paper.

fairground

This was painted in 1952 while doing my national service in the army. It was painted with printers ink which I lifted from the quartermasters stores and I painted it in my barrack room,no mean feat!
The army wasnt all bad,when the education officer saw this painting he found a room for me to use as a studio and arranged an allowance and transport (Bedford 15cwt)and driver to take me in style to evening classes in a nearby town once a week. I ended up teaching art there when the art master went sick. In return for my studio I had to design "Join the regular army" posters.and also paint murals in the mess halls I was pleased to do this as they later took me off all normal duties and so I could paint all day with materials supplied..

boats

Cornwall type scenery.......Oil on board 2008

Hills~~Wales

Oils 1995

Reclining nude

acrylic on paper

Was never much good at life drawing,too lazy to learn anatomy properly at art school.

Do they still teach that these days?

Another beach

Oil (Artisan) on board. This painting actually pleases me,a bit primitive but I got the tone and colour right to my eyes on second attempt (overpainted)

Artisan paint

Oil on canvas 2007
This was painted with Artisan Oils. a water mixable oil paint. advantages, Easy to clean up,brushes last for ever,disadvantages very slow drying but there is a drying medium. This painting was a straight off job,the sea and cliffs applied with a house painting brush,usually though I block of with acrylics then overpaint with oil rather than this thin almost watercolour paint effect. http://www.studioarts.co.uk/links/hintsandtips/oilartisanpaints.htm

beach

Memories of Devon and Cornwall.......oil on board 1970s .

Fields in evening light

This is a painting done on a Wacom drawing tablet,no paper involved,for those that dont know,one draws and paints on a tablet with an electronic pen which transfers straight onto the screen. The pen can act as a brush or pencil,even a palette knife and can load with any colour. You cant hang the original on the wall though!

20 minute sketch

canal

Oil on board 2007

Fields

Oil on wood 2008 heavy overlaid paint for texture
dark hill and sky to throw up foreground. usual cottage,
don't know why I always put these in.must be in me genes.

Decorative panel

Small decorative wood panel painted with emulsion paint
for the bathroom. 1980s

Oil on board 2008

Trees

Oil on board painted late 60s a colour and design exercise

Essex Marshes

This was painted some time in the late 60s from the memories of my youth when I lived there. It was painted entirely in emulsion paint and is still in very good order.A different style from my norm.

seascape...mist

This is emulsion,ink and washing up liquid painted on to the back of a sheet of glass. painting is in reverse,first the detail in indian ink and squeezy as a medium then when dry, backing up with small brushwork emulsion and finishing with large brushwork,good fun to do but you cant change any mistakes. brings a nice depth to the painting AND you don't have to varnish!

Sketch book

Bits and bobs.