The Growing of Summer captures the fields just as they begin to bring a new crop from the earth. Taken half way up the Pentland Hills and looking south towards to the borders. In most of my oil paintings I like to leave areas for the paint to create folds with other colours and leave its own marks on the canvas. To the right of the painting you will notice a white blob mixing in with the reds further down the hill, this is what I am refering to in my paintings. I couldnt have deliberitly tryed to create that effect, call it chance or whatever you wish but that is what I am constantly trying to create within my paintings.
I find letting my oil paintings create themselves is a far more enjoyable way to paint rather than constantly bothering with too much detail. On occasion I do enjoy creating paintings with detail but I prefer to do them from the comfort of my studio.
On this occassion it was mid summer and a very hot afternoon. The landscape stretched out for miles before me and almost seemed dried by the heat we had over the course of two weeks. Its rare that we get a summer like this and I remember painting a lot of canvases over this period, on occasion having to go and buy more oil paint each week.
It is rare for me to put in roads and other manmade objects in my landscape paintings but on this occasion I felt the road would help give a sense of the distances invloved. Scotland has some trully amazing views to create a painting from and on this occasion I was lucky enough to not only have the weather on my side but also a cracking spot to paint from.
This is another of my favorite contemporary oil paintings, it's still to be made available as a print.
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 Summer Oil Painting On Box Canvas
The Painting is Size 7" x 5" £14.95 SOLD
A 100% original oil painting
Painting Signed by the artist in bottom right corner.
No prints of this art work are currently available.
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"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
Simonides
"It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. "
Edgar Degas |
