Hebridean Dream

Here is a painting I did from imagination inspired by the Outer Hebrides with its mountains and beautiful shell beaches its called Hebridean Dream watercolour and Oil Pastel on watercolour paper its 20 inches by 14 inches in size

Its been a while

Its been a while since I have last posted since then been experimenting with oils, acrylics and of course oil pastels, will post some more recent paintings soon, I sold a small oil painting at a recent exhibition, need to practise more and do more mosaics as well which I really enjoy doing as well will update soon Lesley

Trying out new set of Watercolours

The past school term I haven't done much daily painting I have been in helping at the local school make a community mosaic noticeboard, the kids were brilliant and have done a fantastic job, will take some photos when it goes up on the wall and is completely finished, a received a gift voucher from the school and with it bought a small pocket set of Winsor and Newton Artist watercolours and a small pad of paper, this is a quick doodle to try them out the colours are so intense and lovely to work with, I hope to use them outside for painting, need to remember next time to leave some paper white

Strichen Park

Spent a lovely day last Wednesday with the art group at Strichen Park this is the finished painting of the pond and a swan using Caran d'ache Neopastels

Fulmars on Cliff Top

One good thing about waiting in all day for a parcel to turn up by courier it is a good excuse to finish a painting, after a dabble with oils and then going back to oil pastels I realise how quick and easier they are to use, I think oil pastels are the thing for me, mind you it is good to experiment with other media once in a while, this is a painting for an exhibition at the Lighthouse museum in Fraserburgh, it has to be paintings of seabirds, two Fulmars sitting on top of a cliff with pink flowers I cant remember what they are called

Oil painting experiments

These are a couple of small experiments the mountains are done using a brush and liquin to give a misty feel to the painting with soft edges, the trees are a contrast of lots of texture and a bit expressionism using the oil bars and blending with fingers found that baby oil and kitchen roll is good for washing hands covered in oil paint and then with soap and water afterwards need to do some bigger paintings

Fraserburgh Beach painted using Oilbars

This painting on stretched Canvas of Fraserburgh Beach from memory using Winsor and Newton Oilbars took about 45 minutes to paint.