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...

Painterly brushstrokes now available in my online shop...

Scotland Landscape Paintings Stuart Kirby Art

Sand Wester Ross Towards The Inner Sound And Raasay

Greetings

Latest painting off the easel...

" Sand Wester Ross Towards The Inner Sound & Raasay "...

Acrylic On 30cm x 24cm Canvas Board...

Painterly brushstrokes to be varnished when totally dry and available soon in my online store...

Romantic Paintings Stuart Kirby Art Summers Gone

Hmmm its been a while apologies to you who read my ramblings...life gets in the way of art sometimes...

Anyway the summers been and gone which I have to say was refreshingly pleasant here in Scotland...

I even managed to grow tomatoes outdoors unprotected which are native to the south of france and delicious they were too...

In July we acquired a new member of the household in the form of a female cocker spaniel named Mollie pictured below...

Butter wouldn't melt in my mouth...Aye Right... 

Mollie has keeps us on our toes like most puppies especially with her teething and will be a good studio assistant hopefully...

Photography took over most of the summer months with trips to various places for inspiration in creating new paintings and mere pleasure also...

I shall post more of an update on my current artistic adventures here very soon...

Regards Stuart

Romantic Paintings Stuart Kirby April Art Giveaway

"A Moment In Love" by Stuart Kirby All Rights Reserved © 2012

So April has arrived...Easter's been and gone and this week has been full of sun...bliss...

My apologies for not posting a new art giveaway on the first of the month but I have been consumed these last few days in selecting a new monitor mainly for my photographic work as I have seemingly got back into it professionally again...how did that happen!...

I blame a certain Jasmine Star...

I also acquired a graphics tablet for my Photoshop work and it's immediately apparent I'm definitely needing a lot of hours of practice with it.

Anyway back to the giveaway...

This month's art giveaway is a print of an oil painting(still available) out of my imagination entitled " A Moment In Love "...

As usual all you have to do to enter the giveaway is leave your name below to be entered in a draw...

Then on 1st of April the winning name will be left here on my blog...

After an exchange of email address and shipping information the print will be sent to the giveaway winner...

So all you have to do to enter is leave your name below in the comments section...

Font problems grrrrr...

Good Luck...

Stuart

Romantic Paintings..Stuart Kirby...Mull Of Galloway Again....

Mull Of Galloway Scotland ...Stuart Kirby Arts
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So the brushes have been on hold recently and its the digital SLR camera that has been in my grasp...

I was recently asked to photographically cover certain events at a wedding at the beginning of the month...

All went well and it was good to have a change of mindset and media in creating, capturing and processing images of the special day...

It took me back to the 90's to the days of me using film to create images...click to see more..

I remember being in the press pit taking editorial images of tennis stars like Anna Kournikova (remember her) and sending my film for 1 hour processing whilst staffers for national papers were armed with early versions of digital cameras and laptops and able to wire through their pics to their picture desk and editors directly...I just couldn't compete back then...different now though with all this technology...especially viewing the image immediately after capture...

Across The Solway Firth To England....Stuart Kirby Arts

Anyway yesterday me and Evlar ventured down to the Mull Of Galloway for a run out...

It was nice to see my homeland across the Solway Firth with the snow topped mountains of the Lake District in the distance...

I love this most southerly point of Scotland and its views especially on a clear day albeit a bit hutchy and windy like yesterday...

Across The Irish Sea to Ireland....Stuart Kirby Arts

Last time we were here I only had my phone camera but this time luckily I had brought my DSLR along and captured a few pics...

Swinging round through 90 degrees on this peninsula Ireland comes into view which is the birthplace of some of my ancestors...

A nice run out all in all...Thanks for dropping by...

Oh just a reminder...Don't forget my totally absolutely FREE month of March art giveaway... you can enter here...

Romantic Paintings...March Giveaway

Lovers And Maidens by Stuart Kirby All Rights Reserved © 2012.

Well its March...yes March already and the sun has been shining the last 3 days hopefully it will last one day longer as I have a wedding to attend tomorrow...

Anyway this month's art giveaway is an unmatted,unframed print of a romantic painting of mine entitled " Lovers And Maidens " on art paper...

The actual painting can be viewed at The Gallery On The Corner  Dundas Street, Edinburgh...

All you have to do to enter the giveaway is leave your name below to be entered in a draw...

Then on 1st of April the winning name will be left here on my blog...

After an exchange of email address and shipping information the print will be sent to the giveaway winner...

So all you have to do to enter is leave your name below in the comments section...



Good Luck...

Stuart

Ayr Art Circle

Ayr Art Circle 2013

The exhibition kicked off today so on the off chance your in the area why no pop in for a browse and a coffee at the Maclaurin Galleries....

Open Monday,Wednesday to Saturday 10am - 5pm...

Sunday 12 Noon - 5pm...

Closed on Tuesdays...

Runs until 24th of February...

Romantic Paintings....February Giveaway...

" Love From Troon" Stuart Kirby

Well its February and the daylight here on the west coast of Scotland is noticeably drawing out nicely as we move towards spring...

This month's giveaway is an unmatted,unframed  print of a romantic painting of mine entitled " Love From Troon " on art paper...

The actual painting is being exhibited at the Maclaurin Galleries Ayr from the 2nd February at the Ayr Art Circle annual exhibition...

All you have to do to enter the giveaway is leave your name below to be entered in a draw...

Then on 1st of March the winning name will be left here on my blog...

After an exchange of email address and shipping information the print will be sent to the giveaway winner...

So all you have to do to enter is leave your name below in the comments section...



Good Luck...

There's Orangey Painting

" There's Orangey" Abstract Painting

One small abstract off the easel entitled " There's Orangey" painted on 7in x 5in approx canvas board...To view more of my abstracts click here

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Scotland Art....Dunure Harbour

Dunure Harbour Ayrshire Scotland Painting

A few miles down the coast from me here in Ayrshire is the old fishing village of Dunure...

I love to visit there especially out of the tourist season when one can stroll around more freely and take in the atmosphere and imagine times gone by...

This impressionistic painting of the harbour shows the view looking out to the Isle Of Arran across the Firth Of Clyde...

Painted on a 7in x 5in gessoed hardboard using mainly transparent acrylics and varnished for colour enhancement and protection...

Double click the image for larger view...

Example Of Painting Framed...

Sun And Solitude Painting.....W.I.P.

This is a work in progress entitled
" Sun & Solitude "...for an upcoming group exhibition here in Ayrshire....painted on a 20in x 20in deep box canvas...a few glazes to go...come on dry faster...waiting...

Scottish Landscape Art

Here this week on the south west coast of Scotland we managed to get away with light snow flurries...fortunately it didn't lay compared to the east coast where there was major disruption together with the north of England as the weather front headed south over the border...

Anyway this impressionistic landscape painting is of Loch Riecawr in the Galloway Forest...I like to play with colour or color depending on where you reside...

Painted on a 7in x 5in hardboard panel in acrylic...gloss varnished for protection and colour enhancement...

Romantic Paintings Stuart Kirby Take 2

The Ayr Art Circle exhibition at the local Maclaurin Galleries opens on the 19th February...To enter art for this one has to have ones artwork critiqued by fellow members...

Originally as stated in my previous post the painting " A Moment In Love " was going to be exhibited in Edinburgh but I changed my mind after painting 3 more seascapes which will be shown here soon...

Anyway a couple of fellow members from the art circle commented about the distant islands looking like sharks teeth amongst other things so I pondered a while and reworked that section of the painting bringing the island forward by heavier application of the paint and changing the shape...

One member commented they loved the sky but we shall see if there is any response from the viewers at the upcoming exhibition...

Is it an improvement on the original?...Only you can decide...

Details of the exhibition will be posted soon...click here to see more of my seascapes...

Purple Rain

I painted this abstract expressionistic painting outside plein air style on the patio on an overcast day here in Scotland..

The sun appeared momentarily to be followed by a traditional scottish downpour...

I decided to leave it with the marks made by the rain as I rushed to get the painting and myself undercover...

Entitled " Purple Rain "...

It has now been varnished with a very high gloss finish to enhance the colours...

Romantic Paintings by Stuart Kirby

Well it seems like winter has finally arrived here on the west coast of Scotland....yesterday the peaks of Goatfell on the Isle Of Arran had their first covering of the white stuff...

As a southern softy whilst I don't like the cold I enjoy the winter season here especially when the temperature gets well below freezing and the dampness in the air goes and the sun shines...seemingly more than the summer I feel...


Anyway back to the arty stuff when I was in Edinburgh dropping off my abstract paintings last month at the Gallery On The Corner I was asked to bring along one of my romantic oil paintings for viewing...

Subsequently I have been asked to paint 3 more romantic paintings for exhibition there in February 2012...

So here's a quick snap of the first one...