Painting during lockdown

[kirtleypete]

Not modelling of course, but I thought people might like to see some pictures I have done over the last months to keep me occupied. Until last March I hadn't done a painting since 1983 - it's got the date on so I know!   

 

If anyone else has been painting please do share your work, I'd love to see it. 

 

Langstone halt in the early 1950's. 

 

 

An SNCF 231G at speed.

 

 

'Salisbury' on the climb out of Ilfracombe.

 

 

A Wainwright 'D' at speed.

 

 

An SNCF shed scene.

 

 

I've got plenty more, but this will do to start things off. I haven't just been painting trains, but I do keep coming back to railway subjects.

 

Peter

 

 

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[Kris]

Wonderful.

[kirtleypete]

Here are five more:

 

 

A Caledonian 'Oban Bogie'. 

 

 

An LBSCR 'Richmond', another try at a fast moving loco. I don't know why the track looks curved, it's straight on the painting!

 

 

Hopefully this looks a bit poster like. 

 

 

The Cote du Nord metre gauge in Brittany.

 

 

One way of fitting a big engine onto a small canvas! 

 

All the pictures are done with acrylic paint on a 20" x 16" or 24" x16" canvas.

 

Peter

[Pete the Elaner]

They look really good. Indoor hobbies are a great way of coping with lockdowns.

[kirtleypete]

Here is a final group, and now I hope others will join in with their work.

 

 

This is the first picture I did back in March, really to see if I still had any ability after such a long gap. It encouraged me to carry on. The loco is an LBSCR 'Belgravia' class, copied from my O gauge model.

 

 

Folkestone harbour swing bridge.

 

 

A Severn & Wye Railway train at Berkeley Road.

 

 

My impressionist period!

 

 

A Brighton Atlantic in the early 1920's.

 

 

An SNCF 241P at speed.

 

 

 

Peter

[kirtleypete]

Surely it can't just be me that's been painting pictures?

 

Here are three more, which I'm less happy with but it's worth including them.

 

 

A Nord 4-6-0 on the quayside at Boulogne in the 1930's. The wheel under the cab isn't vertical! 

 

 

The Correze tramway in the 1920's. I struggle painting small figures like these, they look very wooden. 

 

 

Dieppe Maritime in the 1950's....on the picture I copied the place was packed with people and not one was looking at the huge loco just a few feet behind them! I decided to paint the scene after most of them had gone home.

 

Peter

 

 

 

 

 

[Zomboid]

15 hours ago, kirtleypete said:

Surely it can't just be me that's been painting pictures?

I've been writing music, which isn't quite so shareable. Painting is not a skill I have...

 

Your pictures are charming though, so thanks for sharing even if no one else has any to reciprocate with.

[kirtleypete]

Modelling is great but it's good to have something different as well when you've got so much time to fill. You've got one advantage, writing music doesn't fill up your walls!

 

Peter

[kirtleypete]

Here's my latest effort, a scene on an ironstone line east of Melton Mowbray in about 1960, inspired by simply looking out of the window at the weather a couple of days ago. It gets a bit bleak on the hilltops where the quarries were. 

 

 

Peter

[Colin_McLeod]

Wonderful work @kirtleypete. 

 

The only painting I did during lockdown was the ceiling in the railway room!

 

[Georgeconna]

The D at Speed is smashing, I'd love to take this up some, Time, My dad used to teach art but alas never got taught myself. 

 

Just painting models for me at the mo.

 

Are these all oils?

 

Cheers

 

George

[kirtleypete]

I use acrylics George, mainly because they dry so much quicker. With at least another five weeks of lockdown I'd better order some more canvases!

 

I must admit I'm finding it hard to get motivated for modelling at the moment; I have a garden line that I can't use and all our layouts are built for exhibitions. 

Peter

[kirtleypete]

Peter Kirmond sent me this picture of York station, taken by OS Nock in around 1934. I thought it would make a good painting, but it needed a bit or foreground interest. 

 

 

 

 

Peter

Edited January 31, 2021 by kirtleypete

[Graham T]

Nice work

 

I'm a new joiner to this site, stumbled across it the other day and then spent hours browsing!  And then resisting the temptation to get a tape measure out and see where I can fit a layout into my flat...

 

I paint in oils as a hobby, and put my work up on a website here, if you'd like to take a look.  I'll post some of my paintings on this thread later - here's my latest one to be going on with.

 

 

[nickwood]

I took up painting a couple of years or so ago, watercolour landscapes mainly. I’ve not tried any railway subjects but perhaps the emphasis on landscapes will come in handy for a backscene in the future.

 

Some recent examples,

 

 

 

 

[Mick Bonwick]

I know where you can practice your backscenes painting!

 

[Graham T]

I like your skies - would make very nice backscenes I think.  Watercolour is very tricky, no room for errors.  I think oils are much more forgiving, make a mistake and you just wipe it away, scrape it, or paint over it!

[PJBambrick]

Artists' acrylics are good for doing backscenes on exhibition layouts, but they are not much fun to paint with, as you end up with a dry pallet too quickly for comfort!

 

As long as there's no risk of water damage, Gouache paints are more fun, as you can return to a dry pallet with a wet brush and bring your colours back to life, instead of having to mix them again. 

 

It's fine to overpaint it in layers as well, just like opaque oils or acrylics, and that's the method I used on Marlow Church & Bridge from the lock c1900.

 

It does need an absorbent surface such as watercolour paper, which would be perfectly good for an indoor backscene on a permanent layout by just spray gluing it onto mounting card, and then curving it round behind your model as a diorama painting.

 

 

[Graham T]

That's a super painting, especially the water.  I'm still struggling on with my homage to David Shepherd - this one is in oils.