Street Art/Landscape – Chapeltown – Oil on Box Canvas

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Splashes of Red in a Sepia Street

This is a little village Scene of Chapeltown main street. It is very quaint and every Summer the whole village have flower boxes and planters outside their houses. Many locals drive through just to see the beautiful display – “Chapeltown in Bloom!”

I wanted this little street picture to have a timeless feel and so painted in oil sepia tones. To achieve this I had to visit the village over twenty times to sketch it, as nowadays everyone has a car and the village only seems to exist from the middle of the bottom windows upward. After many, many sketches (Whilst cars were in different places along the road) I managed to get enough of the pavement line to construct the contours of the Village.

As a finishing touch I added some warmth back into the scene with the red flowers. This has been one of the most talked about paintings in local exhibitions – Especially as people can see the street now, as it used to be – Without Cars!

Portrait – ‘My Little Ones’ – Watercolour Portrait

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‘My Little ones!’

I had an idea one day, to dress my children up in old fashioned clothes.  We had a lot of fun as they ‘posed’ for photographs in flat cap and hat around the house. A few years later whilst looking over old photographs, I settled on the picture above, even though my Son was pulling a funny face, and decided to paint it in watercolour. The small photograph in the bottom corner is the actual one I worked from.

Poppies – ‘Wild Poppies and Forget-me-nots’ – Watercolour Poppies

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‘Poppies and Forget-me-nots’

This Watercolour picture of Poppies was done from my garden, where the Wild, Orange Poppies nestled happily within a carpet of fresh blue Forget-me-nots. The thin papery texture of the flowers allows to sunlight to almost pass through.

Street Art – ‘Mayday Festivities’ Oxford University – Street Artists

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‘Mayday Festivities’ – Oxford University

Whilst my Daughter was studying at Worcester College she would tell me of the Fantastic atmosphere in Oxford when it was Mayday. There would be Artists, Musicians, Dancers and all kinds of Street activities. including dancing around a Maypole. Often the partying would go on through the night. She sent me some photographs. This Watercolour above is depicting one of the scenes!

After I had finished painting, I stood back and noticed I had omitted to put the young girl’s legs in the painting. With my paint brush hovering ready to paint them in, I Stopped. I realised it actually gave something more to the picture by the legs absence. Like an ethereal figure floating off to the sound of the musician’s music!!