Garden

15 cm x 12 cm oil on canvas paper.

The easiest place to do still life is in your own back garden. There'll never be any regrets about what you forgot to bring, just pop back indoors and get it. You can always find shelter if it's too wet, warmth if it's too cold, or this weather, shade if it's too hot.

One week in Cornwall.

A walk along the mining coast from Pendeen to Cape Cornwall where I took time out to do a painting of the last leg with the Cape in the distance and the Brisons out at sea. It was grey and blowing a gale but what a day, shame I cant paint the wind. The small pochade box I use really comes into its own on days like this, with the canvas set into the box lid my painting station doesn't turn into a kite like work on an easil might.

Acrylic on canvas 21cm x 21cm

Liverpool painting No.126. Jordan Street

21cm x 14cm, acrylic on board.

The Liverpool paintings are all 21cm x 14cm. Mounted originals £90, acrylic prints ready to hang £28 and mounted prints £13. U.K postage included.

Liverpool painting No.122. Queens Wharf

21cm x 14cm acrylic on canvas board.

All the Liverpool paintings are for sale and are all the same size. Mounted originals £90, acrylic prints ready to hang £28 and mounted prints £13.

7.30am, no one around except the odd curious jogger. I hope to be able to offer cards as from next week.

Liverpool painting. May I Start, May I Finish. Albert Dock

I got down with the tourist's and began this last night as the sun was getting lower and lower, finishing touches added this morning from photos etc.

Albert Dock is the largest group of Grade I listed buildings in Britain and the Dock was officially opened on 30 July 1846 by Prince Albert.

It was the first enclosed, non-combustible dock warehouse system in the world and the first structure in Britain to be built entirely of cast iron, brick and stone. In 1848 the world's first hydraulic warehouse hoists were installed.

The Dock was built to accommodate sailing ships with up to 1,000 tons' cargo capacity but by the turn of the century only 7% of ships using the Port were sailing ships. The Dock's days were numbered and it was finally closed in 1972.

The refurbishment of Albert Dock was carried in 1983 and the first phase was opened in 1984 in time for the arrival of the Tall Ships Race and the International Garden Festival.

The official re-opening ceremony was performed by HRH Prince Charles on 24 May 1988. The original building cost was £514,475-8s-ld. The present day insurance valuation of the buildings, however, is in excess of £250 million.

http://www.albertdock.com/index.php?page_id=2

May I Start, May I Finish. Pochade painting of Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool

Another painting of the sculpture in the square. It's in a section of town called The Rope Walks, hence the twisted and turned sculpture.

Ashwell Street.

I like the idea of painting the landmarks of the city sitting in the background of the streets that surround them. Cain's Brewery was founded in 1858. Within 25 years of founding the brewery Robert Cain had over 200 pubs, which included the city pubs, The Philharmonic, The Vines and The Central , which later became listed buildings. The brewery sits across the road from the studio, standing like a red brick castle.