Glydr Tawr and Road to Llanberis Pass by Roy Smith

While I'd like to see this done on one sheet of paper, I ache with sympathy for all the problems you will have had in matching colours with these, and yet still think it's worked very well as a whole. I can well imagine that you might shrink from attacking it again quite so soon after finishing this quartet, but I hope you'll do so when you've tackled something a bit more straightforward and feel like taking on the challenge again. I know this area a little, though haven't been there for over 40 years, and would be very interested to see the unified piece. What, I wonder, was the most difficult colour-matching problem? At a guess, the foreground rocks...

This is great Roy, and what a great story behind it, just shows how small things can develop into something we might never have imagined, the purples and greys of that mountain are lovely and i cannot think of a better way to get a photograph for a painting than on a mountain railway, i love trains especially steam trains and chugging away up the side of a mountain sound idyllic to me on this rather nasty midwinters day

hi this is very clever roy beatifully done i love all the detail xx

Thanks for your comment Robert.I do have an idea to do it on one sheet, probably it would be more straight forward than trying to match across the different panels. As a learning experience I now know to leave the edge colours until the rest of each panel is done. The rocks were difficult to match and I had to wash that area out more than twice by which time it was toned to a rather dirty colour. Alls well though eventually.

Ros, thanks for your comments. Interesting isn't it? Somehow we just know that a scene is going to work out, and some photos really don't inspire at all. You are of course welcome to visit my web site where if you like you can leave comments also.

Paula, thank you so much for your lovely comment. I have just had this painting rejected by Mall Gallery, London, but I didn't really expect it to be accepted. Don't try then no chance! I was up against the professionals after all, trying to be exhibited in the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours.