2015 start

Two recent paintings - "Winter" - scene near Barcaldine Castle, which I used as a Christmas card and "Sledging" - a watercolour based on a demo from Trevor Waugh on the SAA website.

Buchaille

Buchaille Etive Mhor

Painted on my Asus Transformer pad

using the Auryn Ink watercolour app.

Some work from my OCA course

Self portrait A2 in ink

Garden scene, A2 marker pens

Town scene A2 marker pens

Updating things

Getting photos of various pieces I've done over recent months. Hope to post ASAP.

Pause

Apologies to regular viewers. The painting is still continuing but ill-health is causing me delays in organising images for the blog. Hope to get things sorted soon!

Feb/March 2011

Various pieces done in recent weeks.

A wee waterfall in the woods of Glen Creran. Acrylic.

Stalker castle, Loch Linnhe

Fruit and flowers. Acrylic

Lower Loch Creran & snowy
 Morvern hills

River Morriston

Acrylic painting of the river Morriston which flows into Loch Ness. 12"x8"

Pastel practice

Here I'm looking at tones on white objects in front of a black velvet sheet. Pastel on black board.

Charcoal & Chalk

Black charcoal, white chalk and a litltle green & blue coloured charcoal made this picture of water in a jam jar. 12"x12" on paper.

Rocks, Tralee beach

Fascinating sculpted rocks on Tralee beach. Accessible only at low tide this is an evening scene with a low sun off to the left.
Acrylic on board. Approx 14"x12" Jan 2011

Two sketches

Sketch overlooking Loch Etive from the Glen Sallach road.

Below - On Loch Lomond near Balloch the rather ugly building that is the Sealife Centre. Its an interesting challenge to draw though.

Sketchbook practice

Some recent bits from my sketchbook. These are just intended as practice and memory-aid pieces.

2 minute sketch of lady spinning wool at market.

Bird feeder

Figure photographing loch at Glencoe

Glencoe loch and Pap of Glencoe mountain

Indoor perspectives (I might have posted this previously)

Mother  & chick sparrows

Mother  & chick sparrows 2

Two exercises from book Drawing with te Right Side of the Brain. The idea was to copy drawings from the book but to do them upside down.

Recent sketches

Looking along the beach just after sunset. I liked the sky, much of which is cloud shadows from the set sun.

A rowan tree coming into leaf on the sdie of Loch Etive.

Towards Ben Lora with part of Connel Bridge. Viewed from the seat at the south side of the bridge over the entrance to Loch Etive as a fast tide was ebbing.

Pastel colour exercise

The brief was to produce an A2 sized work using pastels to show the inner detail of fruit or veg.

A Freesia and a Sunset

Freesia. 12"x10" Watercolour pencils.

Sunset over Mull from Connel Bridge

Acrylic 16"x12" Composed using knife painting. Based on the same original photo as I used in this earlier version.

Loch Creran monochrome

Acrylic 12"x10" I used monochrome tones blended from yellow, white and little red for this view looking over Loch Creran from the north end of Benderloch.

View from Iona

Acrylic. Looking from the isle of Iona.

Iona beach and abbey

Acrylic 16"x12"

Beach seen from the north end of Iona wit the abbey in the distance.

Loch Ness – autumn light

Acrylic 12”x16”. From a photo we took on the side of Loch Ness last month.

Easedale

Gouache 16”x12” Based on a photo taken near Easedale island, Argyll