Tuesday's paintings

I was helping my friend yesterday and then had kids club so today I did two paintings today and tried to take photos step by to make a video but on both got carried away and didnt take as many photos as I should have here are todays paintings on mount board the farm one has a gouache underpainting

No painting yesterday

I didnt do any painting yesterday but was showing the kids how to use oil paints they wanted to try them out, got a bit messy but they had fun

Halo around sun 27th April 2013

Painting using oil pastel looking towards Mormond Hill only the bottom half of halo was visible when I painted this and then there was a great big display so the camera came out and painting had to stop first time today have seen Parhelic circle, and 120 degree Parhelia

Painting 26th April Stormy sky

Oil painting on primed paper painted with pallete knife

1 week of daily paintings

I have managed to do a daily painting now for one week most have been small paintings done in under an hour, have to watch less tv, less time on facebook and more painting, it the only way to get better!!!!! only another 51 weeks till a yea,r at this rate I will be needing more art supplies and more space as the thick impasto oil paintings done with a knife will take ages to dry.

April showers

2nd painting usinfg oils and pallete knife, having great fun using both , painted the clouds outside and then the rain came down had to finished the picture in studio. Oil paint on primed mount board

daily paintings 24th April

The dolphin was quickly painted at art class, oil pastel on  black mountboard, the tree is my first attempt at using my new Reeves plastic pallete knifes from great art, its a fun piece just to try them out used oil paint straight from tubes.

Oil painting practise 23rd April 2013

This is a practise piece, a view from my studio, oil paints on primed mountboard

A bit of a misty feel to this one, too much blending

A view of Upper Strathellie from Lootingstone

This was painted today in 40 minutes using caran d'ache neopastels on mountboard, another view from my garden

View from field next to house daily painting 21st April 2013

This is a quick 10 minute sketch from the field next to my house, it started raining before I could finish, Sennelier oil pastels on mountboard with colourfix primer.

Mormond Hill Plein Air sketch 20th April 2013

This is a quick sketch of Mormond Hill on Daler Rowney Mountboard using Caran d'ache Neopastels

Studio

Here is a photo of my studio, all set up for painting looks a bit messy,

Home made Pochade box

This is a "homemade" pochade box which attaches to a tripod for my camera it was made using a pastel storage box and using the hinges and canvas holder from a heavy table easel box that I rarely used, that I got from the barn New Hope Trust, for £5 many years ago, I gave the whole thing a varnish so it can withstand Scottish weather and used a 1/4 inch t-nut so it can attach to my tripod, Pochade boxes can be expensive this homemade one cost me about £15. No excuse for not getting out and doing some Plein air painting.

Paintings 19th April

Here are a couple of paintings the small one was completed today and the larger one is a work in progress

Both are painted using Caran d'ache Neopastel oil pastels

To long......

Its been well over a year since my last blog, my attempt at doing a painting everyday was a flop, maybe too ambitious but it can be done if I get commited, I have painted over the past year and will put my attempts up on this blog, I am regularly attending Wednesday art group in Fraserburgh a great bunch of artists. I have realized that to do a painting everyday then it has to be small but I need the practise so here I go again second attempt at daily painting! A Robert the Bruce might have said try,try again.