Contemporary Landscape Art - Oil painting techniques

Most paintings have details on the methods used and on the background to each landscape oil painting. Click the image

Ballinbriech Castle 10x12ins. Available  £175

Three oil studies from the road between Newburgh and Newport in Fife, Scotland, looking down upon the River Tay. I often concentrate on a single landscape area like this for a time.

The Road to Newburgh 10x12ins. Available  £175

The River Road 10x12ins.   Available  £175

Broughty Ferry Castle 24x26ins.      Private Collection

“If” 36x30ins.         Private Collection

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I have an interest in applying traditional oil painting techniques to contemporary landscape painting. Like learning a language, learning the craft of painting landscape (at best) makes it easier to communicate ideas and emotion within the work.

Angus Landscape and Sky 24x26ins. Private Collection

If you have an interest in oil painting techniques or have a particular query, feel free to send a post to the new forum for an exchange of ideas.

Falls at Reekie Linn 24x30ins. Private Collection

Paintings of Colour and Light, Sunset and Dawn

The Castle 24x26ins   Available  £950

I try to suggest the presence of people or to imply the presence of the observer in all my “uninhabited” landscapes. Sometimes though, there is a case for painting the human figure directly into the scene.

Glasgow Commission 30x36ins Private Collection

Paintings of Water. Most people are really drawn to water. It is a major element in any landscape, and in a landscape painting, whether it’s an expanse of sea from a clifftop or the dark depths of a millpond,

Cockburnspath 36x48ins. Private Collection

Water - Contemporary Seascape Paintings

In landscape paintings, water provides the artist with a great compositional tool as it reflects and merges land and sky features together. In addition, when water moves it creates its own highlights like the pure white of a waterfall in  sunlight or the foam in a wave

Scotcraig Breaker 16x18ins Private Collection

Paintings of Rivers

River Landscape 36x48ins. Private Collection

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Paintings of Trees

Trees have a tremendous presence in the landscape. Some individual trees seem to have human characteristics and painting them is more like painting a portrait. Collectively, in woods or in a forest, trees have an massive effect on the perceived mood within a landscape.

The Wishing Tree 24x26ins. Commission

Paintings of Mountains

Mountains have to be the most dominant feature in the landscape and in landscape art they appear with iconic status again and again. It’s impossible not to be drawn to their sheer presence.

Glenshee 24x26ins Private Collection

Mountain and Cloud 16x18ins Private Collection