My latest locomotive portrait…something with a Scottish flavour. Caledonian Railway No.419 of 1907, now preserved by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society.
It’s been a busy time lately, so progress has been slow, but here’s a completed artwork.
“Patriot at Rest”. London, Midland & Scottish Railway No. 5925 “E.C.Trench” depicted in more or less original condition as it prepares for its next turn of duty.
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.
“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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