It might still feel like summer here, but my minds starting to move towards the winter fun ahead. The last two paintings of last Ski season are here. A bit bigger than my normal ski paintings. Setting off from the top of the Grande Motte Cable Car, Tignes / Val d’Isere ready to ski and snowboard down the most amazing galcier that I know, 77x33cm oil on board. This ones just going to the framers to get a frame, price £495. The second paintings is the mad rush (for some of us ) from the top of the funicular to be greeted by heaven, the Grande Motte glacier cable car just opening, no queue and a piste full of deep powder……..run……………………..Oil on canvas 100cm x 40 cm x 4.5cm. Price £595. They are not on the web site yet but will be there quite soon. Take a look at the rest of the ski and snowbaord paintings for sale. https://petecaswell.co.uk/wp2/product-category/ski-snowboard-paintings/
Work is progressing well at the studio with the 3 new display studios in the fields due for completion by spring next year all ready to display some of the extra large paintings. More information about visiting the new studios will be posted on the web site at the start of the ski season. www.petecaswell.co.uk
Grande Motte Tignes Val D’Isere Large Ski Painting For Sale
Beautiful sunset painting from Putsborough Beach in North Devon. One of a set of 4 paintings based on a series of orange and magenta sunsets from just above Putsborough beach. From the glorious weather we have been having this year there will be more sunset paintings later in the year.. 80 cm x 80cm on canvas. The new studio display rooms are going well and should be completed for next spring.
Putsborough sunset painting in orange sky for sale
To celebrate the near end of the ski season I had to do my favourite ski painting as a large version. I love this one of the skiers and snowboarders exiting the funicular at Tignes / Val D’Isere on the way to the cable car to scale the heights of Grande Motte.
Next season’s plans are being laid to visit Verbier, St Moritz and Zermatt on a grande tour by train and skis. Forget summer, lets have another winter.
The new collection of gold leaf paintings are now complete. They are a really beautiful set of oil paintings. The sunsets are based round a really rich colour scheme of ultramarine blue, Prussian blue deep red and cadmium yellow. The central feature of these paintings is the light in the centre which draws you into the paintings. The gold and silver adds another dimension to the paintings by reflecting the light down the middle of the canvas. As you walk past the painting or view it from different angles the reflection changes and it alters the depths of colours creating a moving and changing scene from every angle. I have released some of the paintings for sale and the remaining 3 will be released over the coming weeks.
Most of the paintings are on block canvas 80cm x 80cm with one large on e at 120cm x 120cm and the London one 120cm x 60cm framed on board.
As it is the New Year I made a video about visiting the art studio and taking a look around at all the paintings for sale. It starts at the gate then you walk up the drive to the studio, through the door and take a look around. Its about 14mins long and gives you a real good look at a couple of rooms in the studio and some of the paintings.
Colourful large London oil paintings centred around the River Thames and near to the centre of London including Westminster Bridge and Soutwark Bridge using colourful oil paints and Gold Leaf. This is a beautiful oil painting of Westminster and Westminster Bridge with Big Ben piercing the skyline. The sky has a real atmosphere and creates a great glint across the Thames river. Lots of colour detail make this a really interesting and exciting painting to have. 100cm x 50cm x 4.5cm oil on block canvas.
Large Oil Paintings for sale of London Westmeinster Bridge and Thames
A really beautiful painting just down river from Westminster capturing the fantastic winter light which is so prevalent along the River Thames in February. Big Ben, Westminster and Westminster Bridge in the distance. Stunning colours and texture really make this a painting to treasure. 60cm x 60cm x 4.5cm oil on canvas.
London Oil painting for sale of Westminster Bridge, Big Ben and Houses of Parliament
London Thames gold leaf large oil painting for sale. Southwark Bridge
You can see in this painting how the white gold captures the glint of the sun shining through the clouds. On the water the variety of golds really capture the feeling of the sun glistening off the Thames. This really is such a beautiful oil painting embellished by real Gold leaf. I have used a mixture of Golds from 12ct up to 24ct to add tone and colour to the light in the large paintings. In places copper and silver have been used to add to the colour spread. I always love to add light to the paintings and that is why I paint for the light and the love of light and colour. For years I added white and used a dark background to increase the effect of light on the canvas, to convey a sense of brightness. The Gold leaf adds many new dimensions to the work. Its a metal instead of soft oil and canvas. It shines and reflects light and it forms different shapes to the brushes and knives I use. It can have soft edges, hard edges or just glistening speckles. There are different colours from white gold to pure 24ct gold. What I love about it above the light is how it draws you in and reflects the light back. When you look at the painting from different angles and at different times of day it changes depending on how the light catches the gold. When the gold is bright the colours sit back a little and when the gold is reflecting less from another angle the colours come to the front more. Blog on Gold Leaf Paintings
Large Gold Oil Paintings, I think I have found the love of my life!
London Thames gold leaf large oil painting for sale. You can see in this painting how the white gold captures the glint of the sun shining through the clouds. On the water the variety of golds really capture the feeling of the sun glistening off the Thames.
These really are such beautiful oil paintings embellished by real Gold leaf. I have used a mixture of Golds from 12ct up to 24ct to add tone and colour to the light in the large paintings. In places copper and silver have been used to add to the colour spread.
I always love to add light to the paintings and that is why I paint for the light and the love of light and colour. For years I added white and used a dark background to increase the effect of light on the canvas, to convey a sense of brightness.
Gold Leaf Ocean Sunset Oil Painting For Sale. This painting is still in progress, adding a glint across the top of the waves and shaping up the sun with some rich 24ct gold leaf.
Then two years ago I was in Courchevel 1850 and Megeve and I visited some of the very expensive art galleries in the french alps frequented by the flamboyant Russian clients. I fell in love in those galleries. They had a hue of gold and monied opulence which just seemed to hang in the air, so thick you could breathe it. It was tacky and it wasn’t over the top, it just glowed in a beautiful and reassuring way. It made you know it was there but it didn’t over power. Subtle beauty, but powerful.
I returned to my studio and invested in some gold leaf which I have looked at for over a year, and it was recently that I began to see how it would work in my paintings and i was inspired to use it to embellish my works.
Large Sailing Oil Painting with Gold Leaf For Sale. Perfectly beautiful, beautiful colourful boats and rich warm colours all sparkling as the sun glances across the ocean on leaves of gold.
The Gold leaf adds many new dimensions to the work. Its a metal instead of soft oil and canvas. It shines and reflects light and it forms different shapes to the brushes and knives I use. It can have soft edges, hard edges or just glistening speckles. There are different colours from white gold to pure 24ct gold.
What I love about it above the light is how it draws you in and reflects the light back. When you look at the painting from different angles and at different times of day it changes depending on how the light catches the gold. When the gold is bright the colours sit back a little and when the gold is reflecting less from another angle the colours come to the front more.
Large Gold Leaf Sailing Boat Sunset Painting For Sale. Rich deep and a little moody. Subtle colours and low light. Complex forms of light in the gold and deep blues and reds.
These are really special paintings and they do take a lot of time and thought to get them to work right so they are going to be a little more expensive. But compared to my trips around some of the more exclusive galleries of London Paris, South France and the Alps they are tremendously good value.
These new large oil paintings with gold leaf will officially go on sale on the web site towards December this year.
Argentiere ski and snowboard painting for sale. Lightly coloured turquoise and purple on a smaller canvas of part of the Chamonix ski area. I will be revisiting Chamonix again this winter so expect some more ski paintings from The Grands Montets, Brévent / Flégère ski areas.
Argentiere and Chamonix Mt Blanc Ski painting for sale
Courmayeur and Mt Blanc Oil Painting from the Italian side.
Courmayeur and Mt Blanc ski and snowboard oil painting for sale. Epic colours and textures make this wonderful semi abstract oil painting float off the wall. On deep canvas 80cm x 80cm this is an amazing painting and I love it. I can only say the jpeg does not do it justice. The glacier sweeps down from Mt Blanc in the centre and Mt Blanc climbs up to the right through the trees. Pistes part of the Courmayeur ski area deep in powder lie off to the left. Probably be in the £800 mark when it is put up for sale later in the year.
Verbier Ski Painting For Sale. Its not Chamonix, but it is so close I count it in the list as it makes for an epic off piste combination.
Verbier Skiing paintings will add a real atmosphere to your wall. From 60cm x 60cm deep block canvas up to over 100cm wide framed oil paintings
Piste just above Verbier Switzerland. Skiing Snowboard oil painting for sale
Skiing and Snowboarding paintings from Verbier and Mt Fort are nearly ready. Here is the collection from last years epic powder season.
Mt Fort Cable Car Skiing Oil Painting For Sale
This is a beautiful collection of really luscious and colourful oil paintings inspired by the powder above Verbier in Switzerland. You really have to see them in the real life with the fantastic textures and colours.
Chair Lift emerging from the clouds around Siviez near Verbier Switzerland. Skiing Oil Painting on Board. This one is a real beauty once you get it. The mountains on the right are appearing our of the clouds looking up to Mt Fort.
There are two more smaller paintings to still complete while these bigger paintings up to 1m across are drying.
Snowboard painting for sale Mt Fort Cable Car Verbier Switzerland
Verbier Ski Painting For Sale. Just above the resort of Verbier in Switzerland. Fresh powder run through the treesSki painting for sale above Verbier
I have just completed a beautiful pair of paintings of Croyde bay which will be made into a framed limited edition print set of 20 later in the Autumn. These original oil paintings will be for sale later in the year when they have dried. They are about 1.2 metres across and 0.6m high framed with a white block frame. These two paintings are most interesting capturing the feelings and atmosphere of the bay in such stunning colours and textures using palette knife techniques. They are a composition of images from a few similar view points to get the painting to work to its fullest and capture the eye and imagination.
Croyde Bay Oil Painting For Sale
This is the first of the Croyde bay paintings and below is the second one of the pair which was painted at the same time. Both of them are slightly different and have different textures and colours. The price for these paintings 1.2m x 0.6m framed will be about £495 each incl. shipping in the UK.
