“Saint Bartholemew” leaving Paddington in Edwardian times…
“Saint Bartholemew” leaving Paddington in Edwardian times…
Have finished another locomotive portrait painting. “Polar Star at Conwy”. Britannia Class Locomotive 70026 leaving the Conwy Tubular Bridge by the base of the castle walls, late in the afternoon and in a voluminous cloud of steam. Another digital painting project with tablet and stylus, executed in an oil style.
Great Western County Class “County of Carnarvon” (the GWR’s spelling) No.3823 leaving Paddington with a mixed passenger and parcels train in the 1920s.
This is my latest digital painting project. Useless information of the day- the software tells me this took a little over 36 hours of actual painting time and consists of a little over 52,000 brush strokes.
Midland Compound No.1000, in restored condition, waiting to collect its train and depart Nottingham Victoria in 1961. A digital painting inspired by David Kirk’s photograph.
Another of my “Triang imagined as real” paintings. This time it’s the Transcontinental Switcher, inspired particularly by Stephen Jack’s recent post.
An Australian Railway painting for a change. As usual, done digitally with an iPad and Apple Pencil. This is the ‘Spirit of Progress’ which was introduced in 1937 and ran over the Victoria Railways 5’3″ gauge (Irish Broad Gauge) network from Melbourne to Albury on the Victoria – New South Wales border. There is connected with a Standard Gauge New South Wales service which went on to Sydney.
I always thought there was something elegant about the design and have had it in mind to paint for ages. Admittedly, the streamlining of these locos was an afterthought – the S Class Pacifics were streamlined for this service and actually dated from 1928.
Another classic model loco realised in art as a real loco. The Triang dock shunter of the 1960s painted by me how it might look if real…
When I was young and used to spend a lot of time on model railways, Triang-Hornby had a little tank engine, or a family of them “Nellie”, “Polly” and “Connie” as well as some numbered brothers such as “No.27”. They had a certain charm, but were as much toy as model really. This year is Hornby Railways’ hundredth birthday, so as my own little tribute, here is No.7178 re-imagined as a real locomotive.
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