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

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

 
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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

New Beginnings

I have neglected this blog for a few month so I am going to start it afresh. I am going to begin with some of the paintings I am hoping to sell at the East Neuk Art Club Exhibition at Pittenweem New Town Hall, Session Street, during the Pittenweem Festival (6th to 14th August 2016).

Several paintings are of local scenes. The harbour scenes, the Autumn Day in Saint Andrews and the Flower Meadow have been made using a scraffito technique with acrylic paint over oil pastels of complementary colours. I have tried to get a balance of warm and cool colours.
  

Crail Harbour

Mixed Media

This will be on sale, mounted and framed, for £75

Pittenweem Harbour

Mixed Media

This will be on sale, mounted and framed, for £60

Anstruther Harbour Festival

Mixed Media

This will be on sale, mounted and framed, for £75

Autumn Day in Saint Andrews

Mixed Media

This will be on sale, mounted, for £15

Several are of one of my favourite subjects for painting, flowers:

Flower Meadow - based on the wild flowers in Bankie Park, Anstruther

Mixed Media

This will be for sale, framed, for £30

Red Poppies

Acrylic

This will be for sale, framed and mounted, for £60

Pink Poppies

Mixed Media

This will be for sale, framed and mounted, £50

 Himalayan Poppies - as seen in the grounds of Cawdor Castle

Acrylic

This will be for sale, mounted, for £20

A rare subject for me, a still life:

Still Life with Bastet

Acrylic

This will be for sale, mounted, for £15

And an Italian scene:

A View of Siena

Acryli

This will be for sale, mounted, for £15