Greater Albion Art and Design Blog

“Great Western at Honeybourne” My latest digital painting project, just finished on Boxing Day morning. This is inspired by Brian England’s photograph which he posted in February last year, and show’s GWR Castle Class No. 7007 “Great Western” on its way through Honeybourne station. Railway travel how it used to be…

I just finished the painting project that has been occupying me for a month or so. I call this “Northern Elegance”, aFor those interested in such thingsnd it depicts a Great Northern Railway Stirling Single leaving York on an epress made up of GNR six-wheel coaches in Victorian times. A splendidly elegant locomitive leaving a splendid station. THis station, the second your station is still there and much as you see it here. One Stirling single still survives in the National Railway museum at York.

For those interested in such things, this is the largest digital painting I’ve yet undertaken in Procreate, with the app telling me that there are around 34,600 brush strokes done in just under 31 hours of active painting time.

“The Escape” … a mixture of still life from imagination/memory and subtle surrealism.

The Triang Princess was the first locomotive in their range, an existing model they purchased from Rovex that became the foundation of their entire range. It was first produced in British Railways unlined black with a pair of rather ‘distinctive’ LMS coaches. It would be soiled under a range of names and numbers from the end of the forties ’til the mid-seventies. 

This set of drawings re-imagines these classic toys as real-world locomotives.

I have completed this set of drawings to represent all those liveries and also a couple of ‘neverwassas’, the sort of livery with which a modeller of the time might have adorned their model.