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- Northern Elegance
  
  Posted at 1:41 pm by gatf, on November 21, 2021
  Northern Elegance
  
  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.
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- Branch Line Prairie
  
  Posted at 1:45 pm by gatf, on October 4, 2021
  My latest painting project. I’ve just completed two versions of this, this being the second one, done for my own pleasure.
  This is a 1930s scene on an (imaginary) branchline on the Great Western Railway of England. The locomotive is one of their 41XX Large Prairie Tanks, shown at rest on a late spring afternoon at a branch line locomotive shed modelled loosely on that at Tetbury.
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  Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged 1930s, digital, locomotive, painting, portrait, steam
- The Escape
  
  Posted at 1:41 pm by gatf, on August 3, 2021
  “The Escape” … a mixture of still life from imagination/memory and subtle surrealism.
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- Five Poised for Action
  
  Posted at 3:06 pm by gatf, on July 27, 2021
  A newly completed painting from the days when rail travel was done in style. Technical information follows for those interested in such matters.
  
  Five of Sir Nigel Gresley’s finest, in steam and poised for High Speed action, seen here in the full glory of their pre-war condition London and North Eastern Railway condition. For the eagle eyed amongst you, one of these is not an A4…
  
  5 Poised for Action
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  Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged Blue, express, locomotive, railway, steam, streamline. 1940s
- Triang Princesses
  
  Posted at 8:19 am by gatf, on July 19, 2021
  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.
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- No.59 Leaving St. Pancras
  
  Posted at 8:49 am by gatf, on July 5, 2021
  Midland Railway ‘800 Class’ Kirtley 2-4-0 No.59, leaving St Pancras Station early in the 20th century. The ‘800’ class were built as express passenger locomotives in the 1870’s, but were still running on lesser passenger services into the 1920s. Though slightly rebuilt they remained elegant locomotives and examples of the care and attention that Edwardian times lavished on rolling stock and locomotives even when they were used on more mundane workaday services. Would that we could get that sort of care and pride back!
  
  This is a digital oil painting executed in Procreate running on an iPd Pro. An interesting feature of the app is that it reports some basic statistics for each painting. In this case I’m told, slightly alarmingly, that the painting to a little over 45,000 brush strokes with the Apple Pencil and a little over 32 hours active painting time.
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  Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment | Tagged edwardian, locomotive, steam, uk, victorian, vintage
- My Latest Typeface design…
  
  Posted at 1:13 pm by gatf, on June 27, 2021
  Some progress has been made…
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- GWR Atlantic
  
  Posted at 6:25 am by gatf, on June 7, 2021
  A Great Western (UK) Atlantic, in full Edwardian livery, inspired by a vintage photograph. I’ve finished her as No.191 “Atlantic”, one of the proposed identities for No.2999 Lady of Quality, the new build ‘Saint’ class, in the event she’s run as an Atlantic.
  
  I used a slightly different technique this time – it’s sort of digital multimedia, a pencil draweing tinted with watercolours and highlights done in pastel.
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  Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged 4-4-2, digital, edwardian, Great Western, GWR, locomotive, paitning, Saint, steam
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