Scotland Seascape Paintings Isle Of Arran

Isle Of Arran Painting © Stuart Kirby www.itsromanticpaintings.co.uk

Greetings and a Happy New Year...

With the festive season over its back to the brushes and paints here in Scotland...

This unframed acrylic painting entitled " Isle Of Arran From Croy Shore "

Painted on a 30cm x 24cm canvas board in a painterly impressionist brushstroke style...


Varnished for protection and colour enhancement...

 Available in my online shop now..

Scotland Paintings Walking Goatfell Isle Of Arran Stuart Kirby Art

" Walking Goatfell " © www.itsromanticpaintings.co.uk 2013

I haven't walked Goatfell on the Isle Of Arran recently...

I have had 2 attempts and the closest I have got to the summit before the body said a big NO was excruciatingly close maybe 50 yards max as can be seen in the photo below...

Maybe next year I shall return in better shape and be able to see the amazing view from the summit...

Anyway this painting " Walking Goatfell " from today shows the lower levels of the ascending walk as the rock path meanders it's way through heather and grasses towards the ridge...

So close yet so far...© Stuart Kirby...All Rights Reserved...

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Goatfell Painting...Hiking...Isle Of Arran...Scotland

Goatfell Isle Of Arran

Had a play in the studio today using oils on a 7in x 5in masonite board...

A few years ago I purchased a book by Colley Whisson about impressionistic painting...

Anyway I got a few paints out and a large brush and off I went...

Since moving up here to Scotland I'm lucky to have amazing scenery close by...

The painting is a rendition of a photo I took whilst hiking up Goatfell on the Isle Of Arran...

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Latest impressionistic landscape/seascape painting

Looking across the Firth Of Clyde towards the Isle Of Arran from the rocky shoreline at Troon Ayrshire here in Scotland...acrylics painted on 7in x 5in masonite/hardboard...

Goatfell and Failed

Well its been a while since I posted on my blog...to those of you who take the time to read my ramblings please accept my apologies...

August flew by and was a busy month for me..with my sister coming up from the south coast of England to Scotland for a much welcomed visit...here at The Bed and Breakfast Ayr we have had alot of guests which has put things on hold art creativity wise more or less...

Anyway last weekend with good weather forecast we decided not to take any B&B bookings and headed across the Firth Of Clyde by ferry to the Isle Of Arran with the sole intention of climbing the highest mountain on the island Goatfell...I've often looked at this mountain in awe during sunsets from Ayr beach...

Artistically thinking the heather is in bloom in August/September so natures palette is always something to behold...Many artists get inspiration from nature and hill walking like landscape artist Keith Salmon who is also based in Ayrshire Scotland...

Unfortunately we never made the summit due to changing weather conditions and being unprepared clothing wise which dictated a hasty retreat back down Goatfell to Brodick to await the ferry...

As the weather turned to rain Goatfell took on an spooky appearance on the return ferry journey a little different from those sunsets from Ayr beach...