Trees in Spring

Oil on canvas 40 x 30cm

A quick oil painting of trees in the spring light.

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Dreamscape

 oilwash on canvas 30 x 20cm

I thought I might try something different for a change so I put this reduced color palette

together just for fun, it's mostly a heavy oil wash with just a few strokes of color laid over it.

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Painting and drawing from life

Graphite on paper 20 x 30 cm

oil on oilboard 20 x 30 cm

oil on oilboard 20 x 30 cm

 Yesterday I got the opportunity to study some models from life with both pencil and oil. 

These are from the longer poses which varied from twenty minutes to forty minutes.

It's quite a rush to get a piece some way completed in the time available so they are 

quite minimalist in their appearance. It was a lot of fun.

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The Gearagh in the rain

oil on oil board 40 x 30 cm

Another oil of the Gearagh, this time I am trying to capture the amazing winter 

colors of this area, which even on an overcast rainy winters day are still present.

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Early morning January

Oil on canvas 35 x 25

A quick oil sketch from the imagination.

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Sunset in the Gearagh as the water begins to freeze

oil on canvas 46 x 36 cm

This is a painting of an area called the Gearagh in Co.Cork

 a flooded plain on the road to Inchigeelagh. When I was there
I could see the water beginning to freeze as the last light played across
the lake. Great inspiration for a painting but so very cold.

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Painting plein air in the Boggeragh Mountains..

This is a plein air I was fortunate to get in this week, in the Boggeragh Mountains.

I have been painting around the same area for three days as the scenery is so marvelous 

and the weather so mild.

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Plein air at Achill sound

..another quick plein air, this time, the entrance to Achill Sound.
The channel here is quite narrow and so the racing tide whips
along with considerable fury. It is quite a dramatic spot