Karting Nation on Diamond hill overlooking Buxton, oil on 60x46cm canvas

Another nice one Justin, love the sky in this one

An interesting composition. I like the emptiness of the roads and I like the contrast of the roadworks area against the huge sky.

Super, more best of lucks - this is my favourite

These paintings are excellent. I can't remember whether you have mentioned which oils, but regardless, the quality of it makes a difference.

Thanks for the comments and stuff. Diane this is an old Go Kart track it’s now used for motorcycles training courses so at least it is no longer derelict. I loved the visual barriers that were there, things you shouldn’t put in the front of a picture, but it kind of works for me anyway. Gudrun I mostly use student grade paints, and really old paints as they can have good pigment. I do have a selection of ‘artist’ quality paints and I recently bought a load of Michael Harding paints which are much higher in pigmentation and I am very impressed with. The blue is a mix of cobalt blue and lead or flake white and red is a mix of Napthol Red and Cadmium orange which are are some of the artist quality. The trees use a lovely colour called ‘green gold’ which you can mix but there are tubes out there. The sky is a mixture of indigo and cobalt turquoise

Love the contrast of the stormy sky with the stilness of the scene below.