Oil on Board, 9 x 12 inches
Here's
another one I'm submitting to the ROI Exhibition. Thought I'd do a
'local' one to the Mall Galleries, just down the road to the Palace!
The contre jour lighting (posh for looking
straight into it) provided a spectacular effect, with the Palace and its
attendant statues and poncey pillars silhouetted in various subtle shades of
purpley-grey - right up my street...well, the Queen's arctually, as Count Arthur Strong would say!
It was a bit fiddly on this small scale, but I
enjoyed the challenge for a change, instead of my default riverine
paintings. Maybe one day I'll tackle something similar to this on a bigger scale, like the great Peter Brown whose unparallelled streetscapes have given him the name 'Pete the street'. I'm more 'Pete the stream'...doesn't quite have the same ring to it does it?
It's beautiful! I can feel the Autumn weather, the light,trees and people look so real.
ReplyDeleteUtterly fascinating...I can't stop looking at it! Have you got a magic paintbrush?
ReplyDeleteHa ha, yes Sharon, I just wave my brush over the surface and it happens....if only!
DeleteSuperb light effect, Peter.
ReplyDeleteThanks Andrew!
DeleteNow this is fantastic! I love it when you do the occasional street scene. To my untrained eye, the light is fantastic and the painting on the whole is bordering on the loose. Come on you can do it cubs. love from your love
ReplyDeleteThank you my gorgeous love...perhaps I'm getting there?
DeleteSpectacular! For the last couple of years I've been trying to use bigger and bigger brushes to loosen up and prevent me getting fiddly. Then I visit your blog and yearn for my small brushes again. Decisions, decisions.
ReplyDeleteHa ha, thanks Andy! You keep with your bigger brushes - I only use a rigger for the lamposts and the tree branches. I use a 1" household paintbrush for the feathery tree stuff.
DeleteThis one is lovely - just as good as Pete the Street!
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