Bwllfa farm painting

Developing ideas, perhaps for future linocut print.

Wind Farm above Bwllfa Dare

This plein air sketch was made a couple of weeks ago. Oil on hardboard approx 7 x 5 inches. Yellow ochre ground (PY 42 pigment).

Highland Place Chapel, Aberdare

A painting based on a series of sketches. At first starting with charcoal and pastel sketches from life, then to gesture drawings and finally contour drawing and blind contour. This is a painting in oil from memory immediately after finishing the sketches including hopefully some of the energy of the gesture drawings and the lines of the contour.

Aberdare, Victoria Square

Work in progress, oil on canvas of war memorial looking to Black Lion. Taking ages to dry between coats as no heating in studio.

More still life practise

Picture of tea pot and bananas on primed paper in oil in one sitting in art class. Also still life of vase with apples, the first an underpainting in oil on canvas which is going on to dry and the other oil applied in one sitting with small pallette knife. Underpainting included lots of removal of layers of paint while wet to acheive shading.

Still life

Back in the studio attempting to get back into painting with an oil of some rudbeckias and monstera. Side light from window and acrylic underpainting on canvas with layers of oil paint on top.

Neath Abbey

Neath Abbey is on the edge of a large industrial estate. Apparently this part, the church, was covered in thousands of tons of waste from early iron workings but has now been conserved and is in the care of Cadw. Oil on canvas.