Sennen Beach Study

24 cm x 17 cm acrylic on paper

Another study from Cornwall, this time painted from a beach tent ( a great outdoor studio) on Sennen Beach. A steady wind towards the end of the painting forced me to stop as it was like painting on sandpaper and in the paint on the palette. I managed to scrape most of it off but some is there for good on the picture...lets call it texture. I painted the girl in back home from photos and drawings.

My son and daughter enjoy the outdoor studio after a surfing session

Liverpool drawing. Otterspool Prom

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21cm x 15cm carbon and white acrylic.

I’m getting back to the painting and drawing after a long winter break. I walked from the Albert Dock to the Britannia Pub along the prom and back again, another first for me. I had no paints just a carbon pencil, white acrylic and some of Busters water. I'd gone for a walk with my wife and the dog, I’d decided to let some sea air blow through their bones...the dog that is, not the wife. The rails were full of fishermen along the way so I couldn't resist a sketch into the sun.

Liverpool painting No.94. Canning Dock

21cm 14cm acrylic on canvas board, £90.

Liverpool painting No. 92. Navigation Wharf.

Acrylic on canvas board, 21cm x 14cm, £90.

Liverpool painting No. 88. Mersey shore

I went in search of Oglet and followed Brunswick Street to the footpath that led to the Mersey shore. Talk about follow the path less travelled, the place was empty except for a few startled rabbits and the curlews that lifted from the bank in panic at my approach. Here on a small hill was the graveyard of boats, propellers and engines. I would love to have found this place when I was a kid, hours of fun. No doubt it will soon come to the attention of someone in a suit who will order it to be cleared up or fenced off as dangerous.

Liverpool painting No. 81. Albert Dock and the Brocklebank

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Watercolour 21cm x 14cm

Brocklebank escorted the Royal Yacht Britannia into the Mersey and pushed and pulled countless liners, warships freighters and tankers around the docks.

Following retirement in 1989, she is now the only seagoing vessel owned by a UK national museum.

Brocklebank sails around Britain’s coast as a floating ambassador for Merseyside Maritime Museum.

She is the last operational example of a traditional tug built for the Mersey.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2010/04/27/veteran-mersey-tugboat-brocklebank-open-to-the-public-this-bank-holiday-100252-26323945/

May I Start, May I Finish. Pochade painting of the Mersey

I hadn't been down to the Pier Head for quiet some time. Looking out over the river I could be looking out on the 1960's when I was a kid, it's only when you turn back to land you see all the changes. The new Liverpool Museum, buildings of glass and marble still being erected and all the old edifices sandblasted crisp and clean, I felt like a tourist in my own city it's changed so much.

Studio Update 2

Came across a couple more oil sketches from Kynance Cove that I thought I had left in Cornwall so I decided to start these two new pieces. To be honest I got a lot further in this first session than I normally would have. Some days it just clicks and your in that zone where even the accidents add a little to the work. Anyway I decided to press the save button on these pieces and let them dry before I attack them again.