Dumper Truck. 4.5 ins x 6 ins, Oil on Board.

I did this little painting of a dumper truck last week. They are building a huge new shopping mall in the centre of Cardiff, the building work has been going on for some time now and I believe it's due to be finished in 2009. I see it gradually taking shape every time I go into town. So I thought it would be interesting to paint something a bit different. I was quite inspired by this big dumper truck and with the leaning one way sign and the digger in the background it was one of those ready made scenes where everything just fits together like it could be from the Renaissance even though the subject matter is contemporary. I shall probably do some more paintings of this building work as time goes on, it makes a change from painting still-lifes of fruit and lends itself very well to alla-prima painting.

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Winter Wonderland

Haven't done so many paintings over Christmas too busy eating chocolate I guess. Although I did paint rather too many Clementines just before Christmas and haven't put them all up since I thought it might look a bit obsessive. However I've also been doing some video and photography over the Christmas period which is another art form I enjoy. I don't normally put my videos in my painting blog. But I was quite pleased with this one of the Winter Wonderland here in Cardiff and I think it kind of relates to some of my painting to.

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 :)

Trees in Autumn. 6ins x 4.5ins Oil on board

This is a painting of some tree trunks near the the entrance to Bute park at just after 4 pm on an October afternoon. This was about the last of the sun I got that day.

Actually I was going to go to the park today, because the sun was out earlier in the afternoon then it clouded over and is quite dull now. Well I wanted to take some photographs of all the autumn leaves, but they don't look so vivid when the sun goes in. Well I guess the sun is going to be a bit elusive here for the next 6 months.

Taxi! 4.5ins x 6ins Oil on Board

This is a painting of a fairly typical black and white Cardiff taxi coming around the corner at about 10pm, near where I live on Salisbury Road, Cardiff. An abondoned beer can sits on the pavement.

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

Went to a Classic motorbike show in Ponthir with a friend last week, then afterwards we went to see my Mother in Cwmbran. On the way back I took some pictures and some video out the window whilst travelling into Cardiff on Eastern Avenue. The car is a 1979 Volvo so is also a bit of a classic I wasn't driving it at the time I might add :) Actually there seemed to be a lot of braking going on at this spot and later noticed the white van on the bridge, possibly a speed trap. :)