Later train!

I love your picture, Louise. it is fizzing with life. And such a clever composition.

Hope it's not the last one, I'm enjoying these!

Enjoying them too Louise. Where did you go to get a view like that? It's really great!

Just love the way you use shapes

Thank you Shirley, Christine, Satu and Michael. Satu, I'd need to be pretty high up. lol. .. Imaginary but hopefully conveying a sense of the train speeding towards the city?

Wonderfully spontaneous. Everything I said to satu I feel applies to your work you are the most free and arty painter and it fantastic .well done.

This is super Louise good combination of washes and caligraphy.

Superb Louise. There is some really exciting components of this painting (too many to be specific) that I really like. Inspirational.

Many thanks Dennis, Stephen and Joseph. If I'm completely honest, I like this one and am rather happy that you do as well!

I would like to watch you put one of these paintings together as I have tried to work out what comes first and how the painting develops, but it is difficult as there are so many different parts. There is such a lot going on in terms of shapes and colours, but you have the knack of pulling them all together to produce a vibrant and exciting painting. I love the industrial dark sooty look of the bridge which suggests a bygone era of the railway, with the ecologically cleaner electric/diesel train depicted as cleaner and lighter. The history of the railways in a painting perhaps?

Many thanks Thea. You got what I was aiming for! The railway bridges here are mostly the old red brick and to my mind, rather beautiful. Car's drive over them but stand with young children or even another adult, wave madly at the train passing and he beeps the train horn and waves back..lol It's all pretty green until the train gets nearer to the city which I was trying to convey. Standing on the old bridge, looking towards the city. I don't do any pre drawing except for the train shape and after applying loose washes just apply darker colour until the shapes seem to work. In this one, I extended the line at the top of the bridge right across the paper last to pull the painting all together. I think that final touch of dark worked fortunately!

It's all been said!

Beautiful work, Louise! Love the very strong compositional lines and the vitality of the piece.

Beautiful work, Louise! Love the very strong compositional lines and the vitality of the piece.