I used conte building up the tones in warm and cool colours. We were studying the style of other paintings at the life drawing class I attend. Caroline was done in the style of Degas’ bathing paintings.
Caroline Life Drawing, Conte
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Fields Of Snow Forgan, Pastel
This is a study I did in preparation for the class I am taking at St Andrews Art Club. The first two weeks we will be concentrating on doing tonal paintings. The snow covered ground we have had lately has been a great source of inspiration. On days it was too cold to paint outside, my camera came to the rescue. The drawing for this painting was done with charcoal. The number of pastels used were only about five.
Aqua Sea and Pink Sky, Mixed Media
This painting is mainly done in Gouache with some pastel on top. I love the glimpses of crofts as you travelled on the roads in Barra.
Croft On Barra, Mixed Media
This painting was done with a palette knife on a textured ground. I finished it by applying soft pastel. In Barra there are so many lovely quaint cottages to be seen.
Dressed For The Party,Mixed Media
When looking at a piece of watercolour paper which had washes of watercolour and acrylic ink on it. I got inspiration to do this painting. Some of the washes show through on the final painting. I used goauche to bring out the figure and followed this with conte crayons and finally some soft pastel.
Forest Walk, Mixed Media
I started with a watercolour wash on Bristol paper. Then I decided to add some oil pastel to build up the colours and tones of this study.
Traigh Eais, Pastel SOLD
Traigh Eais means ‘Beach of the Waterfall’ in Gaelic. This is a wonderful beach on Barra. It is difficult to put into words what I feel about the beach so hopefully my painting speaks for me. I did this study for a larger studio piece that I plan to do soon.
Winter Shadows, Oil Pastel SOLD
I got some Sennelier oil pastels and this was my first painting to try them out. This is based on an autumn picture and I used a bit of imagination as to what it would look like snow covered.
Loch Leven, Glencoe, Pastel SOLD
This is the painting I did for a workshop at Winchburgh Art Club. I enjoyed the opportunity to share with this group of artists.
Tree At Forgan, Ink
Yesterday was a lovely sunny day. I took a walk in the fields near where I live armed with my sketch book and gloves. I have found the fingerless gloves invaluable when it comes to sketching in the cold. My fingers are free to move while sketching. I liked the views you could see around this lovely old tree. The sun was helping to keep me warm.