Garden Centre. 9x12, oils on board.

From one of my many photographs. It isn` exactly like this, I altered bits a pieces to suit myself, ( Artist`s Licence? )

Margaret, John and Bill at Rye. 9x12 oils on board.

Margaret, John and Bill was painted from a photo that I took whilst having a rainy day out painting at Rye. This is the day that I dislocated my shoulder, silly me eh? That is my pochade at the bottom in the right hand corner. When I was painting, I had an umbrella for shelter. The rest of the mob had that tree for shelter. This scene is showing a break in the weather.

A Kent Farm. 9x12, oils on board.

A Kent Farm was painted from a photo but started from an oil sketch. My friend and I went out for a couple of hours locally and decided on this subject. I did an oil painting there but a different composition. I didn`t like it so hence, this one.

Another scene at Keston Lakes.

Not exactly what I intended, but I carried on and ended up with something different.

Keston Lakes on 5/ 7/ 11

Did this painting this morning. My friend Harry and I decided to paint locally. We both did the same subject, his was in Watercolour and mine as usual was Oils. It was a brilliant couple of hours. Nice and warm, we were in the shade as you will notice with the photograph that I took of Harry. I should have used my flash on him. never mind eh?

Mystery Lady. 9x12, oils on board.

I titled this one Mystery Lady because of the following reasons. I went to a place called Rottingdean, Brighton with our Art club a week ago. I already had done one painting and a sketch when a friend of mine said that he was going to take a walk into a lovely walled garden that had belonged to Rudyard Kipling, The famous Author and Poet. He lived at this beautiful house and Gardens. So I said that I would come with him. As we were about to walk into these Gardens, an elderly lady was just infront of us and my mate asked me if I believed in Ghost`s, I said that I wasn`t too sure. He said well, that lady is the wife of Rudyard Kipling in Ghost form. I laughed at that but I thought she would make a nice subject, so I tooke a photo of her and that is the lady in my painting.

At Keston lakes. 9x12, oils on board.

I did this one a few weeks ago at keston lakes. This is the second one I did whilst there. I wasn`t going to post it because I wasn`t too sure whether it was good enough to post, then I thought, why not, so here it is, like it or not.

Scene at Norman Park. 9x12, oils on board.

This painting was done from an oil Sketch that I did at Norman Park. It`s my interpritation of it. I chopped it about to reasonably please myself.

Harry and Vic at Norman Park.

This painting was painted from Norman Park. The two photos are my friend Harry and I. I`m in the dark coat. There is a little story to this painting. A young lady came up and asked if she could look, naturally we said yes. She said that her family was into Arts, and she related what they did, then she said my Dads name is Harry, and told us that she was expecting a baby ( We could see that ) and that if it is a Boy, she will call it Harry. And I said, for his second name why don`t you call him Victor, she said yes I will. Now wasn`t that lovely of her. She was a really lovely young lady as well. She even said she liked our paintings, that made our day.

Reflections at Keston Lakes. 9x12, oils on board.

A friend and I went to a place called keston Lakes last Thursday, and we both did two paintings each. The second one is of this subject. It was a great couple of hours there. we both enjoyed it very much. Plenty of people coming and going. No bad comments only good ones.