High & Dry!

This is magic ... there is nothing wrong with your drawing skills!

Great painting - you are so versatile in any medium, well done.

This is really great, Fiona. You have handled the greens extremely well and the fence posts really look like fence posts! (Sorry!). And all with a knife... be proud of this one!!

Fiona - if you can do this in acrylic, oils will be (relatively) easy; I like this very much, and agree with Gudrun, Glennis and Lionel. It's a wonderful, strong painting. Some people recoil from using knives with acrylic, don't know if you knew this, because of the speed with which it dries; and some insist on using all sorts of media with it, gel, bulking, retardants .... I've nothing against this, but it's really not necessary: the paint itself will do the job for you if you let it and know how: and you obviously do.

A great painting Fiona - you are doing brilliant work with a painting knife. Yes, I am enjoying using the knife too. I love the subject of this painting and the colours too. Thanks for your kind comments on my last painting.

Gudrun, I drew this all by myself.....no sign of tracing paper Lol! Thank you for your comment Gudrun. Thank you very much Glennis, much appreciated. You see I do listen to you Lionel, I'm glad you think my fence posts pass muster. Thank you Lionel. Robert your views on Acrylic paint doing the job for you are very true. I don't use any kind of additive with them and I think that the quick drying can be of advantage. The initial layer of paint creates a good textural base that can be built on, makes some lovely marks where the next layer of paint hits and misses the highs and lows. Thank you for taking the time to look and comment. Thank you Julie, I'm really enjoying this new experience, I need to order some more white though....running low.

Brilliant Fiona - you really have a lot of atmosphere here - sort of thing that I would really like on my wall. Are you selling many paintings at the moment? All the best

Just wonderful. I love the light and the sense of a breeze blowing off the sea. Super textures from the palette knife marks and a lovely feeling to the painting.

Hi Jamie, sell paintings? Me? Gosh no, I wouldn't dare ask people to part with hard earned cash for them! I give plenty away though. Thank you very much for your encouraging comment Jamie.

Thank you very much for your lovely comment Thea.

A beautiful view, I love the eye-level. I would just love to walk up to that cottage.

If asked to criticise it I couldn't - great painting Fiona

As everyone has already said Fiona, this is lovely and reminds me so much of parts of southern Ireland where we live for most of the year. I love that blue sky, the grey and white rocks and the greens are lovely. Your work with painting knives has so much texture - you'll probably be needing more than just white paint!

I'd buy it - it is a real work of art!

I love this Fiona and the fact that you did it with a knife ... well my admiration knows no bounds,

I almost missed this one Fiona, I like it very much, did you use knives for the whole painting or do you do a brush under painting first? I haven't picked up the painting knives yet but this and paintings by Julie Bosley and others recently have really tempted me to give it a go. I usually use fluid acrylics so it would really be a challenge for me!

Many thanks Carole, Michael, Jane, Jamie, William for your very kind comments, I'm very grateful. Christine I usually give the board a coat of gesso, then for this one I rubbed in a weak wash of yellow ochre. I save all my face wipes and dry them which I use with oils or acrylics, good for cleaning brushes etc. I also use them to rub in the base coat of paint, and apart from the fence posts everything else was applied on that base coat with the knife. I try to work dark to light, and I tend to move about round the painting.......I don' know if there is a right way Caroline but that's how I've done it. Mind you I've only done TWO so I'm hardly an expert!! Lol. Thanks for your lovely comment.

Thank you Fiona for your useful advise. I'm going to give it a go and may or may not post the result depending how it turns out!

Good luck Christine, look forward to seeing it!! Thank you very much Kirstie.

This is very atmospheric and I think that using a knife has given the painting that rugged feeling that you get in fishing communities. I can almost smell the salt in the air with this one :)

Thank you for your feedback Sarah.

Love the textures, Fiona. I think they add so much to the atmosphere of the place. It's lovely!