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.

Oil bar paintings today

Today I managed to put an extra layer on Tuesdays and Wednesdays paintings, having great fun with the oil bars

Winsor and Newton oilbars arrived

Managed to have a quick go with my new oil bars that

arrived today in the post, they are great to work with very quick, En plein air landscape of Mormond Hill again, they are great for a painterly effect not for detail, need to paint bigger, better if working very few layers, maybe need to leave this a day or so to dry, no brushes were use to paint this just the bars and my fingers

Isle of Skye Oil Pastel progress

This is nearly finished just a few things to change did a bit more at art class last Wednesday,
 been a busy week with birthdays and been in at the local school helping them with a mosaic project, I have ordered some art stuff with my birthday money and after some deliberation and trawling the internet for bargains, I have ordered some colourmount pastel board, more neopastel oil pastels, more colourfix clear primer, zest-it solvent and a set of Winsor and Newton Artist oil bars that I got reduced,  haven't tried the oil bars before I cant wait to try them out and see what they are like, watch this space!!!!!, only thing now is I have to wait in for deliveries to come by

the post!!

Homemade willow charcoal

This is my second attempt at making willow charcoal, next time I will need to use thicker pieces of wool, cut pieces of willow so they would fit in to old metal sweety tin, take bark of them, fill the tin up to the top put 5 holes in the lid and put on top of outside camp fire or barbeque coals that are grey ash colour, leave until fire goes out and tin has cooled down, then you will have hopefully some charcoal, be carefull with fire (dangerous) and make sure you make holes in lid so steam and gas can escape.

Charcoal cloud study

A quick cloud sketch using homemade charcoal, I was surprised hoe well the willow charcoal turned out it, is very fragile but does the job

Charcoal drawing of our dog Rosie

This is a quick charcoal sketch done yesterday

A view of Knockmonean Hill from my house

A very quick sketch using a pen and then a watercolour wash on top today's daily painting, I missed art class my daughter and I have cold and coughs, they were going to do pen and ink today, so did a view from my conservatory

A view of Fraserburgh from Lootingstone

A quick gouache en plein air landscape of a view I have been wanting to paint for years, from the very far corner of our field next to the house. A beautiful day today for painting I should be cutting the grass!!!!!

Trees in garden watercolour

Another quick watercolour sketch a view from my kitchen of some of the trees in my garden will need to practise drawing/painting trees I think

Clouds over Mormond Hill Watercolour

Todays daily painting using watercolour on watercolour paper

Impressionist Sky

Todays daily painting of a sky using acrylics and after the style of Monet.

Rays of Light over Mormond Hill

This is todays daily painting for a change using gouache, from a photo I took from our field next to the house looking towards Mormond Hill.

 

 

Yesterdays painting was done at the Wednesday Art Group it is still a work in progress oil pastel of dolphins.