Faulty work

To the South, January, Oil on Board, 24" x 33" 2012

This painting is part of my new Highland Boundary Fault series. Here we are looking across Strathearn towards the Ochil hills from the Little Glenshee area. This viewpoint is on the fault zone.

Here, above and below, are details of another painting I'm working on. It is nearly finished and shows a scene around Monzie, above Crieff, approaching dusk on a January afternoon. Again, it a work which stands upon the HBF line. In the whole painting you see a transition between the high and low lands, with the snowline emphasizing the contrast.

 I have been using a lot of damar varnish in my recent work which has been encouraging me to play about some more with these multiple layers of thin paint glazes. Some of the other pieces I'm working on are nightfall paintings, with darkness built up from successive layers. They work quite well but are practically impossible to photograph, being both very dark and rather glossy.

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