Winter Shaded Way

Someone went out painting without his glasses. That, however totally fictional, is my story here. I did rough this in with a more conventional take on the scene, but it struck me as too clunky to ever work so I went this route instead. Pretty much what I wanted to do anyways. It is, by the way, the same basic scene as my earlier Autumn Shaded Way piece, hence it's name.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

The Blanket of Winter

I wanted to do a larger piece;  I wanted something new to hang over the fireplace. I first tried a view from a height using a small brush but that proved neither detailed enough nor abstract enough to work. So after various other attempts and failures, it came to me just to paint a grey sky and snow: winter without compromise. And it's something I can actually do.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Leaving Kings Cross 2

This is a quota piece: I have a 2 painting a week goal and I was one painting short on Friday. So since someone made a nice comment on my last train painting which I happened to have painted over, I thought I'd do something similar. This is a smaller painting, though I suppose it's hard to tell...

6x8" 15x20cm acrylic on hardboard

Winter Moonlight Along the Creek

I painted this over the previously posted train scene. In real life the train painting was just too flat and blah to last. Besides, I'm more comfortable painting vague abstracted scenes rather than specific concrete ones when working with thicker paints. I know the limits of my talent. (I can't manage thick paint.) And my patience. (Life's too short to bother to learn.)

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Leaving Kings Cross

Just playing around. Painted the subject to vaguely I had to give it a concrete title.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Along the Creek in Winter

This is an old dog trying a new trick sort of painting; thin paint brushed haphazardly about for a slightly different effect than my usual haphazard technique.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Winter Day Study

This is exactly what it looks like: a "screw it" painting. I had started a watercolor style painting that somehow I had managed to design with every element I hated/can't do in it: lots of tree trunks, and too many branches and even a cottage instead of a shed. I tried, and then tried to scrub the offending items off and come up with an alternative design, but in the end, I ended up just saying "screw it" (or some such thing...) and put thick paint on the canvas until I came up with something... And this is it.

12x18" 30x45cm acrylic on watercolor canvas

A Farm Yard at Neubridge Lea

Now that the distractions of the holidays are finally over, I can get back to painting. I paint barns and sheds because they are simpler to design and paint than houses. I also don't like painting tree trunks, so I stick my trees behind buildings whenever possible. The branches on the left (somewhat edited out in the photo because of the waviness of the edge line of this piece of canvas after it's been painted on) I put in to frame the painting and create a sense of enclosure or coziness. I really shouldn't do that: I should be brave enough to paint winter open and raw as it is, but not this time...

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on watercolor paper