A White wall

A White wall. Playing around with greens and blues in this study of a road and a little white wall. Oil on a mid green toned board using a palette knife and a limited palette, cad lemon, ultramarine blue, titanium white, bit of cad red with ultramarine for the darks.

A study of evening clouds.

A study of evening clouds using a limited palette, oil on board. The simplicity of the scene appealed to me in this quick study, using a palette knife, titanium white, ultramarine blue, touch of cad lemon and touch of ivory black to darken the green.

Landscape study.

A landscape study by the sea in County Waterford, trying to get my greens right. I kept it simple and used just a few colours using a palette knife. Oil on board.

A tired girl

I have been trying Arches oil paper. It's great IMO, no gesso needed and its archival. There is a bit of resistance to the paint at first, due to some absorbency I guess, but after that the paint just glides on. So far happy with my new discovery. The painting below is oil on Arches oil paper, 11x7 ins using a muted palette, a brush and then palette knife  impasto in areas.

Abstract figure

I was working on a small painting of a figure that was going nowhere, just not working. So I was left with lots of colourful impasto on my panel, but no figure. What to do? I decided, abstraction, a little figure by use of  the paint already on the panel. 8x6x0.75 ins.

Sad

Over the winter months I have been doing a lot of little studies in oil and acrylic in the hope that one or other might make it to a larger painting. Here is one little work "Sad" oil on panel 8x6x0.75 ins. Brush and palette knife with impasto.

Taking it easy

Take it easy. Acrylic study on MDF panel of a figure sitting., 8x6 ins using impasto.
I was experimenting with complementary colours and impasto textures here, mostly using turquoise, permanent rose, cad lemon,  cobalt blue, translucent yellow and  titanium white.