Rose. 4.5ins x 6ins, Oil on Board.

This is a rose I saw in Cathays Park, Cardiff, back towards the end of the summer. Of course all the roses are gone now, so what better time to paint one. :)

Tree and Roof in Winter 4.5ins x 6ins Oil on Board

This is a painting of a tree I can see growing above the houses from my front window, well it's actually to the side, but I have a sort of window bay and I can see this tree as I write this entry in my Blog, I dare say it's on Richmond Road.

Sometimes you get a really nice sky behind this tree. I loved the way there was a mixture of cool blue, purple and this mad yellow blue which would be a totally impossible colour if it were not seen in context. I mean it looks yellow and it looks blue and it doesn't look green. It's a colour that could only exist in a sky, or a painting of a sky. Almost like a new colour that seems to break all the rules of colour theory, quite amazing when you think about it a contradiction that just should not be, and yet there it is just like magic. :)

Mushrooms 03 Oil on Board 4.5ins x 6ins.

Mushrooms 02 Oil on Board 4.5ins x 6ins.

Mushrooms 01 Oil on Board 4.5ins x 6ins.

Well I said I was doing mushrooms last week and here they are :) Actually I did three paintings of mushrooms hence the title Mushrooms 01 I shall upload the other ones over the next few days. It was quite fun painting these lots of different shades of white and grey.

Eight Fruits. Oil on Board. 4.5ins x 6.5ins.

I thought these apples looked so nice all lined up in their box. The label (right) said "8 Fruits" So what better title for the painting. It also says they are Golden Delicious and come from Italy. I didn't used to like the Golden Delicious and probably wouldn't have bought these if I had been able to decipher the label in the shop, but actually these apples were quite nice and made a nice subject for a still-life.

Evening on Eastern Avenue II 4.5ins x 6ins Oil on board

This is another painting of Eastern Avenue, another one of my 70mph paintings, I wasn't driving I might add, being the UK the car is of course RHD :)

Yellow Pepper 4.5ins x 6ins Oil on Board

This painting took me a little longer than usual. I wanted to capture the yellow in all it's glory. I found the only way to do that was to do an underpainting and do a couple of layers before I could get the yellow to sing. I think I got there in the end :)

Autumn at Gorsedd Gardens Oil on Board 4.5ins x 6ins

This is another little painting of Gorsedd Gardens (The small park by the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff).

Tree at Gorsedd Gardens. Oil on Board 6ins x 4.5ins

Gorsedd Gardens is a little park in front of the National Museum of Wales which is not far from where I live. Actually I didn't even know it was called Gorsedd Gardens until I looked it up on Google Maps and researched it on the Internet and I would doubt many local people would know it's name. However although it is only a small park and perhaps taken for granted in some ways ironically it has more foot traffic than any other park in Cardiff. It also has it's own little stone circle which is now in a little round fenced off part and is minus it's alter, since this was a magnet for drunken prancing LOL as one Website puts it. The little shed in the painting seems to be a little hotdog ice cream stall.