Greater Albion Art and Design

Another locomotive portrait finished, Antipodean subject matter this time.

Midland Railway of Western Australia No. 6 of 1891, a 3’6″ 4-4-0 built by Hawthorn Leslie Limited of Tyneside, England in 1891 continuing in service until 1956 and then preserved.

On advantage of digital artwork is to complete multiple variations on a theme. Thus, here we have pencil illustration, pencil and chalk pastel and pencil and wash coloured sketch.

“Irish Mail at Conway” …or… Paul tries to be ‘Cuneoesque.’

A rebuilt Royal Scot hauls the Irish Mail Express past Conway Castle (I know we should say Conwy nowadays but it was Conway then) on a foggy dank wet day, just after a small downpour. I hope this one makes people smell the blend of damp air and coal smoke, it does for me. A time when trains were made up of proper coaches hauled by real locomotives, all in suitably sober liveries.

“On a Foggy Night” There are many miles closed railway lines, disused trackbeds and viaducts with the track lifted. But are they ever really closed… who’s to say what might still run along them on a damp foggy night when there’s nobody there to see?