Nib

This is a handsome pen - the barrel, which you can't see here, is made of walnut, and the gold nib has delicate scrollwork on it - but it's never really worked right. I'm changing the ink to wahable blue to see if that flows better, but in the meantime I think I have found an alternative use for the pen - as a subject.

Watercolour (with white acrylic for highlights) on paper, ~10 x 15 cm

People at an Exhibition

Painting inspired by Penlee House (Penzance); title inspired by Mussorgsky.

I recently visited Penlee House art gallery in Penzance, Cornwall, to see their splendid Model Citzens: Myths and Realities exhibition, which looked at the human subjects of the Newlyn School. While there, I made a couple of quick sketches - including a few of my fellow visitors:

I decided to work this up into a painting. Using a subdued palette (buff titanium, black, ultramarine, yellow ochre, alazarin crimson (hue), hooker's green and - finally - a little titanium white), I hoped to echo the colours of the Newlyn School paintings that were on show. Two of my people were from sketches made in the exhibition. The third is borrowed from one of the paintings.

The three Newlyn paintings are:

William Holt Yates Titcomb, 'Jubilee Day, St Ives, Cornwall (Good News from the Front)'
William John Wainwright, 'Mackerel in the Bay'
Henry Scott Tuke, 'All Hands to the Pumps'

 And finally, here are a few of my in-progress shots:

People at an Exhibition
Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 22 inches

In Poole Harbour

Poole has a very large harbour, within which nestles the spiritual home of Scouting. Brownsea Island - along with a number of smaller islands - not to mention the marinas, ferry ports and cargo depots that make up the functional port.

Carnations

Carnations are pretty, inexpensive, and rather difficult to paint! I've had a go in several media in the past, but rarely been happy with the results. Oddly, I don't think I have tried acrylics before.

Carnation Back

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm

£10  

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Carnation Close Up 

Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm

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Long Rock

Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm
£300 

Print £85

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Soldier (Cherry 3)- SOLD

It's been a good year for the cherries. This lot came from Kent, via our village shop.

Soldier
Acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm
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Ten Graphite Pencils

A companion piece to Seven Brushes.

Acrylic on canvas,
15 x 15 cm