ABOVEFlooded
Path with a View
Towards Tarn Hows,
Cumbria, oil on
board, 60x80cmhe now works exclusively in oil paints, favouring their
slow-drying time which gives him more time to refl ect
and return to his work, blending areas of colour creatively.
For Flooded Path with a View Towards Tarn Hows, Cumbria,
Rod used water-mixable oil colours, a combination of
Winsor & Newton’s Artisan range and the Cobra range
by Royal Talens. He painted on an acrylic-primed board,
preferring the smoother surface to that of canvas.
He was drawn to the scene as, following a rain shower,
the emerging sun created a crisp, clear light which caught
the mountains in the background as well as the posts,
grasses and refl ections in the foreground. Rod created
the composition using sketches before painting on a
monochromatic outline and fi nally, harking back to his
colour-by-number days, fi lling in the rest with colour.
http://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/rodRod Shaw
This artist’s talents stemmed from humble beginnings,
as the painting-by-numbers sets of his youth were, to some
initial dismay, replaced by a set of acrylics. Sensing his mild
disappointment, his parents suggested he could perhaps
paint his own pictures now. “I thanked them, somewhat
belatedly,” says Rod, “when I graduated with a degree in
Fine Art from Newcastle University in 1986.”
After graduation, an appreciation of the natural world in
all seasons drew Rod towards landscape painting. Having
toured Britain and Ireland for many years, from the Western
Isles of Scotland to the creeks and coves of Cornwall and
the Isles of Scilly, he still enjoys the endless possibilities
for painting presented when observing how the landscape
is transformed by the fl eeting effects of light and weather.
Having previously focused on acrylics and watercolour,Fresh Paint
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