PIttenweem Harbour

I've just finished another mixed media (oil pastels and acrylics) painting of Pittenweem Harbour. Fun to paint and popular in the East Neuk of Fife!

Pittenweem Harbour

Mixed Media

More Sunflowers!

Recently I have been pursuing the sunflower theme based on my previous drawing. I have painted a vase full of them in acrylic, used the ink and paint method and a batik version using tempera paints and ink. The latter is achieved by drawing an image with chalk pastels, painting it with three coats of paint, covering with ink and, then, gently washing away the ink. The results are interesting:

Sunflowers in a Blue Vase

Acrylic

                                           Sunflower                                                           Sunflower
                                   Acrylic and Ink                                                    Acrylic and Ink

Sunflower

Acrylic and Ink

Sunflowers

Tempera and Ink

Sunflower

Autumn has arrived in the East Neuk of Fife, therefore, the temperature has gone up to 20+ degrees! Susan Forsyth's lessons have begun again and today we have been working on our drawing skills with, appropriately enough given the weather, sunflowers:

Sunflower

Pen drawing

Pitkerie Doocot, Anstruther

Recently I have been working on several different ways of depicting the Pitkerie Doocot (dovecot for those of you unfamiliar with Scots). The Doocot is an icon building in this area, visible just off the Anstruther to Saint Andrews road. When she was younger my grand daughter, Sophie, said that this was her castle and she was going to live there when she was a grown up princess. 

I have produced an oil painting of this subject, a watercolour (enhanced with a little bit of ink drawing) and several mixed media versions - mainly ink and acrylic.

Pitkerie Doocot

Oil

Pitkerie Doocot

Watercolour

 
                                        Pitkerie Doocot                                                  Pitkerie Doocot
                                      Mixed Media                                                        Mixed Media

Pitkerie Doocot

Mixed Media

Harbour Scenes

During the last week I have been working on harbour scenes using mixed media techniques. One strand has been using my sraffito technique - oil pastels and acrylic with scratching for shading and modelling and the other strand has been using ink and block printing and finishing off with acrylic. Here are a couple of examples:

Harbour Scene 1

Mixed Media

Harbour Scene 2

Mixed Media

Success at the Pittenweem Festival

In one of my earlier posts I talked about the paintings I was entering for the East Neuk Art Club Exhibition during the Pittenweem Festival. I am really pleased to say that I sold seven paintings. I won't make a fortune but its nice to know that seven of my paintings will be on the walls of different people's houses. I hope they enjoy them! My harbour scenes seem to be particularly popular; I sold several back in Easter at the Crail Art Club Exhibitions. My Autumn Day in Saint Andrews also sold as did one of my Iris paintings from last year. 

More experiments with ink and paint

On Saturday I sold three paintings at the East Neuk Art Club Exhibition during the PIttenweem Festival - very exciting. In the meantime, I've been experimenting again with ink and paint with some interesting results. First of all, another scene from Cambo woods:

Cambo Woods

Ink and acrylic

Secondly, an adaptation of part of one of my previous paintings of Crail Harbour:

In Harbour

Ink and acrylic

And, two versions of tree motif, based on the old Spanish chestnut tree at Balmerino Abbey in Fife:

The Old Tree (1)

Ink and acrylic

The Old Tree (2)

Ink and acrylic