“Somewhere in England”, inspired by a 1920s postcard.The sort of somewhere I’d probably choose to live if I didn’t have to work for a living…. Actually this might be a little far south for my ideal, I’d probably choose the Cotswolds. Digital pencil and wash, executed in the Procreate App on an iPad Pro.
A blast of steam from the past. An old painting of mine, from 24 years ago, heaven help me! 18″x14″, oil on canvas board, Tallylyn Railway No.6 Douglas crossing Dolgoch Viaduct with a short train. Not sure where all the years have gone since I painted this!
A Painting project just finished. British Railways’ Britannia Class Locomotive 70009 ‘Alfred the Great’.
“City Over the Bridge” – ‘City of Bath’, the first of the Great Western’s City class pulls a short passenger train of clerestory and low arc roof stock across a stone bridge. Watercolour and pencil (digital) painting inspired by one of Chris Nevard Model Railways‘ most excellent model photographs.
“Hush Hush on the Scotsman”. Gresley’s W1 4-6-4 locomotive, in its original experimental high pressure boiler form, leaves King Cross hauling the Flying Scotsman service. My latest (digital) painting project, just completed last night.
“Impression of Weymouth Quay” – The Channel Islands express meeting the boat on Weymouth Quay station. Me experimenting with a looser pairing style. Weymouth in Dorset in the 1930s. Sadly the station on the Quay is closed nowadays and the trains no longer go through the town to get there.
“Royal Claud” painted digitally in a pastel style using iPad and stylus. The London and North Eastern Railway kept two former Great Eastern “Claud Hamilton” locomotives in an especially splendid version of their Apple Green livery to work Royal Trains from Kings Cross to Wolverton, the station for Sandringham.
Should anyone find it of interest the software tells me this took 15 and a quarter hours of painting time (I must be getting quicker in my old age) and 15,192 ‘brush’ strokes.
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