Railway art, show us your work :-)

[Robin Brasher]

I did not paint the back scene but I paid a local artist to paint the Corfe Castle back scene for my Corfe Viaduct layout. I gave her some pictures and pencilled the dimensions. I hope that an artist from a firm like Rothbury Publishing will produce a card based on a similar prototype scene.

[MikeOxon]

I've only just found this thread and have been admiring the skills of the artists who have placed work here. 

 

For those without the necessary skills with brush or pencil, there is a 'cheat' method, through software called 'Dynamic Auto Painter' from http://www.mediachance.com/ ( no connection with the firm other than as a user of their product).

 

The software starts with a photo, which in my case was one I took of 'Fire Fly' at the Didcot Railway Centre, and then 'paints' it in one of a choice of many different styles.  The one I chose here was 'Book illustrator' I find it fascinating to watch the program working, as it builds up the picture in a series of stages, rather as a 'real' painter would, through an initial under-painting and then a succession of finer brush-strokes, using a wider range of brushes, pencils, etc. according to the chosen style.

Mike

Edited December 9, 2014 by MikeOxon

[runs as required]

painting the 82 arches of the Welland viaduct in May can get just a wee.....eee bit repeititve

 

 

and the resulting canvas (of supposedly Britain's largest masonry structure*) is mighty long

 

dhig

 

*  "hang on there.... howz'aboot wor Hadrian's waal? Geordie asks...

[Ray M]

I remember a painting of a wezzie and a couple of warships 

leaving Plymouth. 

I think it was called Plymouth sound.

Would love to know if i could still pick one of these up.

[MrChappy]

Were is the 'Grovelling at the Masters feet' smiley?

I have too agree, these are amazing. I'll have to post up my amatuer efforts asap!

[RSLR]

Sometimes I get really bored and doodle pictures of trains and other things on bits of paper next to my modelling area. I find slightly that I spend ages on things I realy like and people have commented that they look really good and they often recodnise who the person in the picture is. But I just tend to doodle the trains most of the time from memory and other times just looking at a picture I quite like.
Here's pictures of the trains New -> Old:













I did take Art & Design at college and frequently painted/drawn pictures of mainly trains, and other things too. The art teacher didn't like me or my pictures.
This is one of the pictures of the trains I did at College I managed to get a picture of before finishing college:

I'm slightly saddened because I think they discarded all my work when I finished college. I did keep 3 pictures I did but they're not of trains.

[southern42]

Hi.  I've finally found my way onto this thread. I'm delighted to see such tremendous artwork and so many different styles and interpretations.

 

My arty path lapsed when I entered adulthood but took off again with a couple of art and design courses 25 years ago which led me into computer work, a long way from using felt tip pens, gouache or acrylics. Then, we started modelling and I became the one who gets to do the scenics and painting the figures. So, when it came to Christmas, I took one of the photos I'd taken of my WD Austerity on Camel Quay and reinvented it to look like a Christmas card. I thought it would be easy but it took quite a bit of practice with the "aerosol can" in Paint to give it a Christmasy look.

 

Here is the original photo.  As you can see it's at the height of summer.

 

And the same view 5 months later.

 

Thanks for looking.

Edited January 5, 2015 by southern42

[southern42]

There was something missing on the Christmas card.  Now I knew this but since I hadn't tried adding smoke before I chickened out.  But for you, here's my first attempt at trying to make it come alive.  I aborted attempts at adding a bit of steam! A job for later, perhaps.

 

Edited January 5, 2015 by southern42

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Sometimes I get really bored and doodle pictures of trains ...... I just tend to doodle the trains most of the time from memory

 

I did take Art & Design at college and frequently painted/drawn pictures of mainly trains, and other things too. The art teacher didn't like me or my pictures.

This is one of the pictures of the trains I did at College I managed to get a picture of before finishing college:

 

I'm slightly saddened because I think they discarded all my work when I finished college. I did keep 3 pictures I did but they're not of trains.

 

I really admire your Warship from memory, and the college piece.

 

My mum threw out (while I was working abroad) all the stuff I'd done at school and college in the 1950s  - before the days of easy photography.

 

The only way I have ever been able to stay awake in boring meetings or seminars is by doodling.

I particularly enjoy ‘What Might Have Beens’.

Since you are clearly a Western’ man; I'll fess up to impossibly big single driver fantasy Bristol and Exeter tank locos – and what Hawksworth might have done - with a cab forward Swindon Pacific in chocolate and cream, oh and a NYC streamliner rip off on a Castle…

…Don’t worry I’ve already got my coat

dh

[RSLR]

Another doodle, My mate driving his Pendo:



Not an easy train to draw, all very curvy.

[southern42]

Me again!

 

Just had to have a go at putting some steam in.  Hope I've done it justice.

 

[runs as required]

Here's a 'What might have been' on the ECML

 

 

It is about 1942, WWII never happened, Bulleid stayed on at Doncaster becoming CME. Ever susceptible to the cheesiest of art deco motifs, OVS fell for this LNER version of the Burlington Zephyr with Armstrong Whitworth ‘mobile power station’ Sulzer diesel engines driving generators as ‘pre-electrification’ motive power for the (eventually) electrified ECML originally planned by Merz and Raven.

 

dh

[runs as required]

This image is posted here so as not to besmirch Ron Heggs’s  unique thread  http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/28293-manchester-central-clc-gn-warehouses-castlefield-viaducts/   on the bringing back to life of Manchester Central station, CLC & GN Warehouses & Castlefield Viaducts

 

I posted in Ron's thread (post #2665) how, as a frequent user of the old Central station, I was always disappointed with the improvised timber weatherboarded front elevation that Cheshire Lines promised would be 'temporary' but which turned out to be permanent.

In my mind as I approached, I always pictured something like the arcades to Tiviot Dale with the fenestration to offices above in brick and stone, with the great arch of the train shed and its clock oversailing everything behind.

‘Borrowing’ some of Ron’s brick side elevations, I have attempted a quick 'Photoshop' collage of ‘what might have been’.

It is a bit daunting attempting to finish off something 130 odd years later – particularly as the original side elevation to Fowler’s arch are hybrids: big classically proportioned sash windows over gothic windows (at least it isn't the other way round). So I have gone for stone trimmed Tiviot Dale style arcades topped with dressed stone versions of Central station's upper side windows. There is a prominent central projecting pavillion, (cribbed from Clivedon) flanked by two stone faced 'bookends' terminating the facade; all topped with balustrades and urns. Recessive intermediate elements of the façade are in brick with glass canopies infilling between the arcades.

 

This isn’t nearly as bravura as somewhere like Huddersfield, but the Cheshire Lines didn’t seem to go in for big architectural gestures – they much preferred big spending on engineering structures.

But it does seem to have an urban affinity with the old Liverpool Central mid 1880s façade.

dh

 

PS

I am just old enough to remember the last of those old pre-war streamline painted Mancunian Crossleys

Edited January 10, 2015 by runs as required

[Matt the c stock]

i tried 

[Matt the c stock]

trying a class 47 now   

[Matt the c stock]

or not 

Edited January 23, 2015 by Matt the c stock

[M Graff]

I made a new painting:

70x90 cm, oil on canvas.

[M Graff]

Here is the newest painting, straight from the easel:

"Obelisk"

Oil on canvas. 60x80 cm.

Edited March 7, 2015 by M Graff

[mikemeg]

Not a train (statement of the blindingly obvious) but a 1930's depiction of the LMS Railway's SS Picard as it sets sail for Dunkerque, from Tilbury, on a cool, clear winter's evening.

 

This was painted a few years ago now and is based on a railway poster.

 

Cheers

 

Mike

Edited March 17, 2015 by mikemeg

[sir douglas]

very nice but wheres the railway art?

[M Graff]

My latest painting.

"Steel mill and steam"

90 x 70 cm. Oil on canvas.

[CathcartCircle]

In honour of my favourite childhood model locomotive.

[Jeff Smith]

Just found this thread. Here's one from many years ago - acrylic on canvas, 24"x48", based on a photo taken just after the bridge was completed.

 

[Matt the c stock]

i must try drawing my 1st loco from my childhood! (hey wait a sec im still in my childhood!!!!  oops!)

[M Graff]

Hi all!

I opened my easter art exhibition yesterday at the former Ravlunda destillery (now gallery, restaurant and hotel):

 

Some of my works:

 

 

I made three rusted pillars with dioramas on them.

I named them "Pillars of society 1-3".

 

 

 

I wanted to raise the artistic reputation of model building.

It was/is a total success!

I sold all three within two hours of opening the exhibition.

I have had so much questions about them afterwards, so I guess I could have sold a lot more of them!

 

Here are some of my other art, the paintings:

 

Smoke, fire and steel:

 

Obelisk:

 

Steam....

 

Sunset:

 

It is a very nice feeling to get artistic recognition on the models as well as the rail related art.