Castle Keep

Looks and sounds like you had a lot fun and what a great result!

Nicely done Robert.

Like this, Robert, both textures and colours.

Really well done Robert 🙂

I like the abstract effect achieved by the use of different techniques Robert. Good result.

Looks great, Robert. I particularly admire the 2ay you've captured the light.

I like the textures in this Robert. Haven’t used palette knives for painting in years, mixing paint is as much as I use them for now.

The colours are great, the greens, the sky blending ‘almost’ with the castle. Great textures as always.

Thank you all: I did enjoy doing this; I say nothing for its quality, too soon for me to make any judgement, but whether I succeeded or not was almost irrelevant: it was just such fun to do, applying the paint, glazing with a knife (you try that sometime!), scumbling, scraping back. AND, though I love oil paint, just imagine the ease of clean-up afterwards: all I had to do was wipe two painting knives - when you're getting old, and were born lazy anyway (the second reason having far more validity than the first) it's a relief now and then not to have a handful of brushes to wipe, wash, and re-shape. I learned a lot, too. Oh, and add a small quantity of Cadmium Red to the colours I mentioned: mostly Cryla, and System 3 from Daler Rowney, Gold Ochre from W & N.

Excellent work Robert , hope you cleaned the knives before you carved you joint of beef ( sorry been silly).

Wonderful Robert, it's great fun working with painting knives and you have created a lovely textured painting.

A lovely painting.

I think it's beautiful, I love the colours.

Love the textures and colours, Robert.

Love the shapes, textures, and colours Robert - all those lovely greens.

Great composition, lovely painting Robert. The created texture is excellent.

Great composition, lovely painting Robert. the created texture is excellent.

It’s not an easy task… and they aren’t the stuff of detail, as well you know! I have painted exclusively using a knife, but on a much larger scale… leaving deliberate flat mark making trowel or perhaps pear shapes, depending on the knife shape. Difficult to explain but you’ll know what I’m saying! You’ve gone for smaller mark making here, well I suppose you had to on this scale… worked out reasonably well I’d say, lots of the deadly greens to contend with and I like the shapes that you have carved out. But… its got to be easier to paint using brushes… I think so, but good to experiment once in a while!

Alan, breathe easy: I shall never abandon brushes: this was just a bit of fun, fun, fun, in the sun, sun, sun!