Simple landscape

A simple composition of houses, fields and the sky. I normally do not use medium in my oil painting, other than thinning the paint in the initial stages with odourless mineral spirits (OMS), but in this case I used Neo Megilp to help create a bit of texture. Use the medium thinly. Oil on linen on 9 mm birch panel 6x8 ins.

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Using clear gesso as a ground.

The study today, is of three figures getting ready to get into a boat. I just wanted to demonstrate the potential of using clear gesso on hardboard as a ground and exploiting  the warm middle tone of the hardboard. Acrylic on gessoed hardboard 7.5x10 ins.

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Waterford street

An experimental impasto oil  painting of a figure in a Street in Waterford, Ireland. I used a palette knife to create the effects of light and shadow, along with some megilp medium. The megilp sets up pretty quickly, being an alkyd based medium and the surface becomes a little tacky after a while, but 3-4 days to dry.

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Girl in sunlight.

An experimental piece on paper, mixed media. Girl in sunlight . Oil over a watercolour and acrylic. I added clear gesso over a watercolour and acrylic and then painted with oil paints using a palette knife. At times I often leave some of the initial watercolour show in the final piece, depending if the tone works. In this case the hat was the original watercolour. I added light effects with impasto.
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Mixed media 7.5x5.5 ins on watercolour paper.

Men in a canoe, mixed media.

In recent weeks I have been working on new oil paintings with some new ideas, but at the same time just for fun, experimenting with mixed media on older works that missed the cut. The painting below started out as a watercolour, which was okay, if I say do myself, but I just left it as a maybe. Recently I added some pastels I had laying about, then had a go with some acrylics with a palette knife. So it is truly mixed media, lol. Not sure I improved it much but l learned a bit about using mixed media. 7x10 ins mixed media on cotton rag paper.

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Woman reclining on a chair.

I like to experiment with various art mediums on occasion, as in, combine watercolours, pastels and acrylics. Recently I was looking at some watercolours I had painted a while back and thought what can I do to make them more vibrant, or just see where I go? This painting was a watercolour of a woman reclining on a chair. I added some texture using acrylic with a palette knife, still keeping much of the watercolour. Mixed media 8x11 ins on paper.

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A beach landscape in watercolour.

A beach scene, watercolour on cotton rag 140 lbs 9x12 ins. I tried to convey atmosphere and space with loose washes and no detail.

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