My latest locomotive portrait…something with a Scottish flavour. Caledonian Railway No.419 of 1907, now preserved by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society.
“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.
Experiments with different digital illustration techniques in a pen and ink style. Great Central Railway Atlantic Locomotive No.258, Viscount Cross.
Have been painting this one for a few weeks now, and used a drab drizzly Sunday to finish it off.
“Southern Belle” – elegant travel in Edwardian Pullman style, hauled by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway 4-6-2 tank locomotive “Bessborough”. How rail travel should be… so much better than today’s electric marvels .
I just finished another (digital) painting project. A winter street scene this time, Queen’s Square, Wolverhampton in the esrly 20th century. I think this group of buildings, which still survive not all that much changed have a certain appeal.
As usual, the onset of overly hot Perth summer measure has turned my mind to snowy paintings, so I worked from a range of photographs of this group but transposed them into a wintery snow scene. As with many of my projects this one sort-of grew in terms of the level of detail and took far longer than I expected!
I spent a quiet afternoon today indulging in a bit of character design…
Greater Albion Art and Design 