Oil painting

I have been enjoying getting to know oil paints, I like the effects of laying down paint thickly with a palette knife in particular, and brushing on thinner paint with brushes. I used to be wary of using paint as I thought you can’t get the same amount of detail as you can with pencil, or maybe you can, maybe using very thin brushes. In my youth, anything I painted was not good, although in the later years, I had dabbled with acrylics and sold a few paintings, so I can’t have been all that bad.

This landscape painting I have just completed was painted on linen oil paper, size A4 and was from my own photograph.. I was heading back to my holiday cottage in Johnshaven, Scotland and the skies turned so dark, the contrasts between the field and sky was fabulous, the heavens opened shortly after.

Stormy Skies, Johnshaven