Apologies for no new posts!

I regret that I am still away from home helping my parents while my father is in hospital, I estimate that it will be a couple more weeks before I am able to get on with painting etc. Apologies for no new work on this blog in the meantime!

An apology for lack of posts

Eagle-eyed viewers of my blog will have noticed a distinct lack of posts recently. This is due to my father being in hospital in a different part of the country necessitating me being away from home for long periods. This has also meant that I have produced no new paintings for three weeks. This situation I regret will continue until my father is well enough to go home and normality will hopefully return at which point I will be able to get back to my home and start painting again.

Recent sales

Street Corner Symphony

It has been a pretty good month for sales this September with two paintings sold at the Brighton Art Fair, "Street Corner Symphony" and "Midnight Promenade" and another, "Easy Street", sold through an internet gallery called Artfinder. The Artfinder sale is very encouraging as it seems to indicate that art buyers are increasingly willing to buy off the internet at good prices without actually having the seen the painting in the flesh as it were.

Midnight Promenade

Easy Street

Brighton Art Fair

Apologies for lack of recent postings on this blog but I have been called away to Leicester while my father is in hospital. I have been able to rush back to Brighton and put up work on my stand at the Brighton Art Fair in the Corn Exchange. The Private View was last night and am happy to report that I sold a painting to a couple that have a number of my paintings already - that makes a big hole in covering my expenses but still need to sell another £300.00's worth of paintings just to break even.....
If there is anyone reading this in the Brighton area please come along, the opening times are:
Friday 20th September   11.00 - 7.30
Saturday 21st                  10.00 - 6.00
Sunday 22nd                   10.00 - 5.00

The Lonesome Road

A lonesome petrol (gas) station late in the evening, it could be anywhere...and it's closed. I fancied doing a moody slightly surreal painting using a lot of silhouettes and used a linen canvas that I had around as I thought it might suit this shape as opposed to my usual square format. I think that I prefer painting on canvas although I suspect that if I used a top quality linen I might change my mind. 20" x 16" oil on linen.

The Lonesome Road - stage 4

Getting a better idea where it is going now. I am going to finish it using glazes as there are lots of adjustments to make before it looks like how I see it in my mind.

The Lonesome Road - stage 3

Put in the basic underpainting today using a mix of Phthalo Turquoise and Permanent Orange as the root colours for the blues. Things need to get darker and moodier tomorrow.