The Lost City - stage 4

 Roughed in some colour on the landscape and will have a look at it tomorrow morning and assess how to finish it. I think I need to get the background in next and then work forward from that. That breakfast coffee time will determine it....

The Lost City - stage 3

 The sky is pretty much finished now so I will be moving on to the landscape tomorrow. I haven't quite got it fixed in my mind as to what I want to do with the landscape at the moment but no doubt all that will be resolved over tomorrow morning's breakfast coffee!

The Lost City - stage 2

I darkened the land and buildings with another coat of the Burnt Sienna/Winsor Violet mix and then made the first colour pass on the sky using the following colours: Ultramarine Violet, Manganese Blue Hue, Permanent Orange, Lemon Yellow, Yellow Lake Deep and Zinc White.

Musée D'Orsay sold

 An older painting of Paris has just sold through Asgard Arts. The painting was the result of a visit to Paris in the winter of 2005 when I was still experimenting with oils. I was interested in broken colour and the effects of colour mixing in the eye/brain that was utilised by The Impressionists and Pointillism so it was very apt to try these things out on a painting of Paris!

Oil on board 181/2" x 18 1/2".

The Lost City - stage 1

 I am painting this as an alternative one to put up on the Every Day Original page on the 13th of this month. It's another Islamic-style city like "The Endless City" but this one has been deserted as it is engulfed by waves of sand. Planning on keeping the colours warm, probably based on oranges and violets although the final decision will be made over tomorrow morning's breakfast coffee...

This is the first tonal underpainting stage using my usual mix of Burnt Sienna and Winsor Violet thinned with Liquin and applied with a small bristle brush and a rag. I will run another coat over the land before I start the first colour pass on the sky tomorrow.

The Tower Of Babel

 My painting from earlier in the year "The Tower Of Babel" has been selected as a Semi-Finalist in the Landscape category of the 15th Art Renewal Center International Salon. I think that this is the first time that I have had a painting accepted for a category outside of Imaginative Realism and seeing as I want to be known in the USA Fine Art field as a landscape painter this is most welcome. Also as a Semi-Finalist my painting will get a bit more exposure within the catalogue itself, a mighty tome with many artists' work within. I have been accepted for the past five years but this is the first time as a Semi-Finalist....

Time To Go Home

 This is the second time I've used this title but what the hell... after painting a few fiddly pictures recently I fancied getting back to my Tonalist series of the Brighton/Hove seafront very near to where I live. Instead of a nocturne I thought that it would be a nice change to paint a daylight one albeit with plenty of clouds. I quite like this warmer palette after so many colder moonlit pictures so I think I will do a few more for this series and for the next painting I am starting aimed at selling on Every Day Original.

Oil on linen 20" x 16",

Details of what colours I used can be found in previous posts on this blog.