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November Exhibition

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Waterloo Bridge, oil on board 10 x 20 inches, 25.5 x 51 cm. Sold

The painting above is one of sixteen of my oil paintings of London, The River Thames and Surrey that will be on show in London for the rest of the month.

Eight Man Show
Llewellyn Alexander (Fine Paintings) Ltd
2 – 28 November 2009

Featured artists:
Roy Connelly
Lisa Graa Jensen RI
Chris Kendrick
Tina Morgan SWA
Liam O’Farrell
Steven Outram RBA
Richard Sorrell NEAC PPRWS
Tessa Shedley Jordan

Gallery Open 10am to 7:30pm Monday to Saturday:
124 -126 The Cut, Waterloo, London SE1 8LN UK

(Opposite the Old Vic Theatre and just 2 minutes from Waterloo Underground and mainline station) Tel: 020 7620 1322/1324

 Visit the gallery website for more details.

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A work in progress

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Earlier this week I was painting the River Thames at Strand on the Green.   The top picture shows the painting a couple of minutes after I started.  I have used very thin paint to draw in the basic composition. 

The middle photograph was taken twenty minutes later.  With a dramatic and fast moving sky I needed to work quickly to capture it.  The trees are a little more solid but the river is still almost untouched.

The last photo shows the painting an hour later.  The trees and river have been worked on together, with a little more work on the sky. By this point the day was starting to brighten up and touches of blue were appearing in the sky.  It was time stop as I did not want to end up with one scene painted on top of another.

I was working in oils on an 8 x 16 inch board.   Click on each image for a larger view.

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Royal Society of Marine Artists

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The Royal Society of Marine Artists annual exhibition opens to the public today.

The show runs until 25th October and features the work of the finest marine painters in the country.  You will find paintings by Geoff Hunt, David Curtis, Trevor Chamberlain, Paul Banning and many others.

My small oil of sea cliffs, shown above, was painted back in the spring on Newport Beach, Pembrokeshire.

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Island Fine Arts

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I visited the Isle of Wight earlier this week to deliver a collection of recent paintings to Island Fine Arts in Bembridge.

After dropping off the pictures there was just time to paint the view from Culver Down, before having a fish and chip supper and catching the ferry home.  It would have been  nice to have stayed longer.

Rye Harbour

Today, I was pleasantly surprised to find one of the paintings on the front page of the gallery website.  Rye Harbour, shown above, is in oil on board and measures 12 x 12 inches.  It was painted on location in the fading light just after sunset.

You can find Island Fine Arts at: 53 High Street, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, PO35 5SE. Tel: 01983 875 133  and at the Affordable Art Fair 22-25 October, in Battersea Park, London. Stand E6

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Hampshire Art Fair 2009

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The Hampshire Art Fair opens today.  I will have a collection of recent landscape oil paintings, including the one shown above which is a view of the Ridgeway in Oxfordshire.  It is 16 x 20 inches, oil on canvas, and was painted on location in July 2009.

Other artists taking part include: Lousie Balaam, Chris Daynes, Mary Jackson NEAC, Richard Price, Richard Sorrell NEAC RWS, Karl Terry and many others.

The art fair will be taking place at a new venue this year, visit the website for full details.

Norman Court Farm
Upper Clatford
Andover
Hampshire SP11 7HB

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Fleeting Effects

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South Bank Summer Evening
South Bank Summer Evening

This picture was painted on the South Bank of the Thames in London yesterday afternoon.  It was painted very quickly to catch the effect of the light reflecting off the water between the bridge supports.  It is an effect that only occurs for about twenty minutes so it was necessary to work fast.

The background was painted rapidly in thin paint and the high lights off the water painted next in thicker paint – fat over lean as they say.

The figures were painted on location but after the sun had moved around and much of the sparkle had faded.  The shadows had to be moved back to match the position of the sun when the sparkle was painted.

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Tips for Travelling Artists

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A good friend of mine has just returned from a trip to the Far East.  Not wanting to fall foul of airline baggage rules, he travelled out with his painting kit but no turps or white spirit. To help him buy some locally, he had translated the words for white spirit and paint thinner via the internet before he went.

After a long trawl through many shops, he was eventually offered a bottle of strange smelling liquid and off he went to do some painting.  Setting up in front of his chosen view, he carefully set out his paints on the palette and decanted some of his newly aquired “white spirit”. 

As he began to lay in the first washes of colour a strange thing started to happen.  The paint curdled then bubbled and eventually started to eat through the gesso priming of his board. Then it dawned on him – he was mixing his colours with paint stripper!

To save him from embarrassment, I won’t name him (yet!) but if you would like to share your tips for successful travelling with oil paints – or even share a few of your own disaster stories – please email me or leave a comment.

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