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Oil Paintings from the sky and clouds - Air

These paintings take the sky as their main subject. The Scottish skies that I paint are well known for the extreme range of colour and light which can be observed on a daily basis.

Cloud Composition 5  8x10ins.  Oil on Canvas                                                              £175

Cloud Composition  10x12 ins  Oil on Canvas                                                            £250

First Call  Oil on Canvas  24x30cms.  (approx. 9.5x12ins)                                            £250

After the Greatest Clouds  14x16ins.   Oil on Canvas                              £450

Paintings of moonlight still need to be luminous, if a convincing picture of the moonlit sky is to be painted. Clouds transmit and reflect the moon’s light in a broadly similar way to sunlit clouds, but our eyes lack the sensitivity to appreciate this fully. The strangest thing I have seen in a moonlit sky was a moonbow, a pale spectral form of rainbow.  - Painting Moonlight

Dedicated gallery of Clouds - Cloud Portraits

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Dawn skies and sunsets have always made great subjects for the landscape painter, but the light and shadows which surround ordinary daylight clouds are just as important in my painting, as is the extreme light associated with rainbows, fogbows, and moonbows.

The experience of looking directly into the light, to me, brings to mind all of the symbolism and mystery that we have associated with the sun and light throughout our history.

The sky emits light and painting the sky in oils needs a different approach to the normal landscape practise. While most landscape paintings can have a structure based on shadows, painting skies often requires that the highlights are given prominence and are painted first, with the rest of the painting following on from these.

Outdoor oil painting is central to sky based work. Oil sketches painted on the spot have a life and luminousity of their own and are pretty essential to understanding the complexities of painting the sky and clouds. -  Outdoor Painting   -  Oil Sketches

Painting sunsets give the landscape artist the opportunity to explore the widest range of colour and tone that can be seen in nature.

John Constable and J.M.W. Turner have both influenced my painting to a large extent. Both  artists spent a massive amount of time observing and painting outdoors, and the majesty of the natural world inspired them much more than the established art of their day.