29 May 2013

Subconscious Musing: acrylics on sugar-paper, 59x86cm.



Amazing Sunsets over Kintyre

Sunset 1: Neocolour on paper, A5 sketchbook. These two colour studies were an attempt to describe the way I felt about the sunsets rather than exact representations of what was happening before my eyes. I wanted to capture an expression of the high intensity and blinding colour as the sun sank gloriously below the hills across Kilbrannan Sound.
Sunset 2: The suns glaring intensity prohibits actually looking directly at it and in looking away with semi-closed eyes the blinding yellow light takes on it's complementary cerulean blue.

Rock Pool

oils on canvas, 50x40cm.
When you look down deep into a rock pool on the sea shore you see the most amazing variety of colours.

Echo

watercolour on paper, 36x43cm.
This is the original 'nymph' painted a couple of years ago when I was searching the highways and byways of streams and rivers to find inspiration in the waters reflections. This is the only one which in the making suggested some sort of figurative content.

postscript: Changed the title to 'Echo' having read about the nymph who loved Narcissus deeply but he was so taken up with his own reflection he completely ignored her. She simply faded away with her broken heart and unrequited love.

A Star is Born!

acrylics on paper, 43x59cm.
Happy Birthday to me!

Bend

Watercolour on paper, 41x29cm. Part of a series of watercolour abstracts based on river reflections.

Where it All Began

Watercolour on paper, 43x30cm.
After a long period wishing I could paint abstracts I made this attempt after gazing on a section of the Rotten Calder River, so it's really an abstraction of my dreaming and observations.