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
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.
I love Tignes and Val d’Isere ski area. It is awesome and unforgettable. My very first skiing and snowboard paintings were based on this huge ski area and I have been returning to this area as my main motif ever since. This painting is a real beauty setting off from the top of the Grande Motte cable car with wind blown snow whistling around your ankles.
Grande Motte, top of Glacier piste setting off to ski the gacier skiing snowboard painting
The cable car terminal is a photographers delight and I have recently made a short film about this special destination which will be released soon. The Glacier itself is a perfect gradient and the snow conditions are often perfect with the peak acting as a bit of a powder magnet.
The Grande Motte glacier is one of my favourite places in the world. Arriving at the top of the funicular for the first coffee of the morning is unforgettable and the place I always start on Christmas morning skiing. Then onto the top of the glacier via the Grande Motte cable car. The top of this cable car is very special to me. I find it an extreme and exciting place, right next to the peak of Grand Motte towering above with views spanning out in every direction.
Top of Funicular Grande Motte Tignes. Snowboarding skiing paintings for sale
This is one of the most classic ski paintings I have done. sat at the cafe at the top of the Funicular at Tignes with my morning coffee painting the skiers and snowboarders as they race towards the first run of the day or catch the first cable car. The line of skiers racing past with the cool ski instructor in red just chilling having seen this over eager race for season after season.
Top of Henri piste at Tignes & Val d’Isere ski painting
Top of the Henri piste at Tignes and Val d’isere has been quite a subject for me with the Tufs chair lift overhead and the piste seeming to disappear into the sky in the ever expanding distance. It always raises the thought in me as I stop at the edge of the piste to check out the off piste drop to paranoid piste. So wonderful and fun with the steep descent opening into a beautiful powder field and then opening to a full speed blast across the lower slopes. But watch out for the unexpected lips of powder dropping into shallow bowls.
Check out the video below of some skiing and snowboarding in Tignes and Val d’Isere and some of the paintings of these famous pistes and lifts. And see why you have to be careful on the off piste descent from top of Henri piste.
Chamonix Mt Blanc the Aiguille Du Midi and Vallee Blanche 3842m
Chamonix is the centre of atmosphere with the epic valley views of Mt Blanc and the cable car up to the Aguille du Midi at 3842. This is an incredible place on top of the earth with access to the world famous Vallee Blanche off piste itinerary from the top of the cable car right down to Chamonix valley.
Aiguille du Midi Chamonix ski snowboard large painting for sale
This is a beautiful Chamonix oil painting, 80cm x 80cm x 4.5cm deep on canvas. Full of texture and colour this painting captures the atmosphere beautifully. After leaving the Aiguille Du Midi cable car and ice tunnel you are straight onto the arete en route to the Vallee Blanche with a view all the way down to Chamonix. A rope guide is all that stops you from taking the direct route back to Chamonix.
Aiguille Du Midi descent on Mt Blanc at Chamonix and the Vallee Blanche Oil painting For Sale
Heading down the ridge to the start of the Vallee Blanche after leaving the Aiguille Du Midi cable car. This is a great painting mimicking the atmosphere of this special place on Mt Blanc, Chamonix. Mosaic texture and pattern of colours make this an interesting painting. Look out for the skiers making their way to the descent in the bottom left. 70cm x 50cm x 4.5cm deep with the image painted on the edge.
Aiguille du midi Chamonix and Vallee Blanche ski snowboard large painting for sale
Aiguille Du Midi Glacier & Cable Car, Mt Blanc at Chamonix and the Vallee Blanche Oil painting For Sale.Looking up at the Aiguille Du Midi cable car on Mt Blanc Chamonix. Skiers setting off to the Glacier off piste route left. Colours and patterns on the glacier centre and right. Beautiful mosaic effect of the colours and textures on the canvas help to add atmosphere to the glacier ice. Oil on canvas 70cm x 50cm x 1.8cm deep.
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
Verbier and Siviez Paintings For Sale for Skiers and Snowboarders in this beautiful Ski area in the Swiss Alps.
This is the first of this years ski season of the new ski and snowboard paintings for sale. This season the focus for the paintings is on Verbier and Siviez where I had a fresh powder dream last year in the unbelievable conditions and the incredible lift accessed off piste. These two paintings are bigger around a metre in length and on board using thick oil paints. The colours are deep and mature with purples, magenta, deep reds and hot blues. There are some interesting textures and colour combinations. These skiing and snowboarding oil paintings will be put on the site for sale towards Christmas of you can pre purchase them. They are just about complete and will need about two to three months to dry before they can be shipped.
Verbier skiing painting for sale near Siviez
This ski, snowboard painting is just above Siviez. Looking down into the Siviez valley with chair lift Siviez 61 dropping down into the trees. This is an epic bit of piste in the powder full of jumps and small cliff drops. From Plan Du Fou at the top when you have tried the epic off piste to Tracouet try this lovely run. As you reach the bottom of the drag Plan Du Fou 62 head straight on off piste and so much fun awaits jumps and rocks and trees, magic.
The painting is set on a fresh powder day with the cloud just starting to lift. Just below on the left you can see the bottom of the run on the other side of the valley accessed from Novelli chair lift. To the right you can see the mountains starting to peak out from under the clouds. The trees are to the right and the drop offs are straight under the lift where you head down. Beautiful deep greens and colour combinations make up the trees on the other side of the valley. To get a bit more orientaion, if you were to look just to the right of the painting through the trees and the clouds you would see Mt Fort peaking out. Price to buy this oil painting will be £750 framed and incl. shipping to Northern Europe.
Ski Snowboard painting above Verbier
This is a beautiful ski painting of the mountains just above Verbier as you drop down into the town. Tree lined runs and a wide open powder filled piste with new tracks and mounds of snow. Lovely colours and textures in the beautiful oil painting of Verbier. Great focus point and mountains in the distance make this a great painting to have on the wall. Full of colour and texture make this a real interesting painting to look at and bring some real life to your wall. Its about a metre across and will go on sale in a couple of months for £750. Its virtually finished except for putting a few skiers and snowboarders hidden in the woods. The painting is from near the lovely restaurant at the top of Maventzet lift in between Medran ski run and Etierces skiing run, looking down towards Verbier and beyond into the valley.
Take a look at the painting process for the skiing snowboard paintings for sale by commission to personalise your skiing snowboard painting to include yourself in your favourite scene.
Last winter I had the most fabulous time painting a ski painting commission, a lot of fun because it was a real challenge. I got an email from an Irish man working in Japan who wanted a ski painting for a present for his wife who was still back in Ireland. The painting was on the glacier above Val d’Isere, a stunning place on top of the word. I have thousands of photos I use as reference for ski paintings of runs in a lot of the top European Ski resorts, especially the highest runs. But this one eluded me. Of the 1000 photos I had of Tignes and Val d’Isere, one of my top favourite ski areas, I could not find anything on this run.
I asked the client if he had any images of the runs on the Glacier. No luck so I had to piece it together from memory. I had skied the glacier many times in December and the weather had not been so kind with mostly blizzards and low cloud. I could remember the runs down in the gullies and the off piste pipes under the chair and a picture slowly emerged in my mind. Several days later I had a more or less full recollectionn of the scene and managed to pin down the area where the painting was to be. It was low down on one of the runs where the client had proposed to his wife many years ago, but no photos of this event existed . Many emails were exchanged and I built up a picture of the time of day the weather and where they were on the run. If you have skied this run, then you know it is quite a featureless area and with a dump of fresh powder the night before there was not much in the scene that I could work with. I need people, strong landmarks and contrast to make scenes work well. This was devoid of everything I use to make an interesting ski painting. The texture and colours hidden in the snow were going to be the making of the painting and expansiveness of the scene relative to the people.
The final email before I started painting was an amusing mock up photo of the male client proposing to his male work colleague so I could get the positioning of him and his wife right. A few photos of him and his wife in their ski gear at that time were the final clues I needed before I started.
This was such a tricky painting that I did not ask for a deposit as I wasn’t sure if it would work and I didn’t want the pressure of having a commitment to get it right so the deal was – if you like it you can buy it and if not no problem. It turned out to be so much fun to do as the client was very helpful in advising alterations to get the scene just as he remembered it.
The last job I had to do was to check what his wife’s favourite colours were to make sure she would at least like the colour scheme. Baby blue and baby pink were the colours so this would serve as part of the underlay of the painting with the white snow on top.
First the sketch to get the colours and layout as the client remembered it.
The the base colours were added to the sketch to work out the background to give it depth
Then I had to sketch the event on the piste the proposal in a larger scale 30 x 40cm.
Get the clothes the right colour and the goggles and a feel for the scene. This was a large mock up painting 30 x 40xm which I would shrink down onto the main painting. I shipped this painting along with the full size painting.Then add a paper cut out of the couple onto the piste to check the scale and position – Whoops wrong side of the piste.Final cut, the snow was added and the baby pink and baby blue, the ski tracks and the couple painted onto the piste this time on the right no left side of the piste.Painting delivered and happily hung on the wall. very happy artist and client. What a lot of fun. Commissions work out about the same price as a similar size/detailed painting for sale on the web site.
