My moon light oil painting has been a long work in progress and it would be nice to finally finish it! As I write this, it is a cold November evening and the moon has been out shining so beau...
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These two fishing crofts sit by a sea inlet in the highlands of Scotland. During my travels about the highlands I came across some beautiful views and locations. The road to this place was a ve...
Back in the old days when I used to travel about the highlands in my car with my faithful dog Spot at my side, we used to come across all kinds of beautiful locations. One of my best memories is ...
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Morning light is an oil painting of one of the beaches here locally. I have been sketching and painting some very small beach paintings. But they have been taking me a while to create. ...
I have been busy during January working on my snow painting. It is a big canvas and I am using oil paints. I was painting this subject for the class I run once a week and the tutorial was ab...
Happy New Year to you all!! I love drawing and still find it the most relaxing of art activities. I was set the task of drawing a stone and then painting a stone using fine brush wor...
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I have to admit that one of my favourite artistic past times is drawing! I simply love the simplicity of a nice heavy weight good quality cartridge paper, a set of good graphite pencils, w...
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Hello once again painting friends! I have been revisiting this quiet oil painting once again. I have brought it out into the light of the studio and can see that it needs more light and mor...
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Oil painting depicting a summer storm. Painted on canvas 12 x 16 inches. As the days move at a fast rate towards Christmas I have managed to find a little time in my studio to paint. I ...
Two of my traditional oil paintings of my area. The first painting with the autumn colours is local and is 18 x 24 inches oil on canvas. The second painting is small only 10 x 8 inches...
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A wild and blustery snow painting in oils that depicts the weather up on the mountains of Glenshee, painted earlier. Low temperatures this weekend and thoughts are now of the festive season ...
I had a very happy and productive summer and early autumn! Two opportunities to exhibit my paintings. The first in a popular Art Venue set in the heart of Deeside and was delighted t...
Greetings to you all! It is a very wet and quite cold summer here so far. As I write the rain is still falling and will do so until the end of the week. I haven't minded too much, have...
http://simmill-arts.blogspot.com/2019/06/back-to-palette-knife-paintings.html
It has been a very busy month and finally things are a bit quieter. I can now think about my paintings that I am getting ready for my joint art exhibition in October this year. I did hav...
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Spring is finally here! Though last night there was quite a storm blowing outside! However the daffodils survived which is always good news! I do try and paint a painting each week, though...
http://simmill-arts.blogspot.com/2019/03/spring-is-here.html
Dear painting friends, Once again two months have flown by without me visiting my blog. Interesting how we get distracted by other things. However I have been carrying on with my p...
I cannot believe it has been seven months since I last posted here on my blog! All I can say is that I have been quietly painting and tutoring art. I also feel I am making a small move forward wi...
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He has a bit of a sun tan but for now it will have to stay that way. He has been repainted a few times and gone from pink to yellow to tanned! His jacket was bright blue and now it is a quie...
Rhonda's bonny bunny painted postcard with the pretty pink ears, looks perfect in our bunny area, Brucie bunny's photo is to the right on the floor where he used to sit. Bruce's stunni...
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Van Gogh self portrait, here are the first stages of my painting of him. I used a 12 x 16 inch canvas and made the drawing. I had originally wanted to leave the canvas white as Vince...
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Another almost three hours spent on the Monet portrait. I so work very slowly but I am really enjoying the experience so much. This is a portrait that Monet painted of himself, I want to w...
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I managed to work a little bit more on my Monet oil portrait this afternoon. I was feeling a little tired today and wasn't really sure about painting and if I could keep awake! But after a...
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First two stages of an oil portrait of Monet. I spent an hour and twenty minutes on stage two. Hello dear painting friends it is still winter here in Scotland with more snow coming soo...
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oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm 'low cloud' Isle of Skye. This painting sat for a long time in the studio since I started it late last year. I had had another idea for how it would turn out, bu...
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My dear sweet little fury friend Rabbit the Bruce sadly passed away just after Christmas. He had been my constant companion for almost six years. Always sitting in his window watching th...