UK Paintings, pt.9

This is my favorite painting from the set. This painting is of my girlfriend, Summer. She invited me to go on the trip to the UK, so she's the reason I went. Here she is blowing a dandelion seeds into the summer breeze as we walk along the Thames River in London. This painting just came out so well and I really love it.

UK Paintings, pt.8

This was cool. Located in Wales near the city of Swansea is a village called Rhossili. It's a picturesque place, recently featured in the drama Torchwood. My favorite part was the island of Worm's Head. It's actually only an island for 18 to 20 hours a day. The other few hours, it's a peninsula because the tide lowers and allows daring visitors to brave the rocky passage out to the island. I recommend it.

UK Paintings, pt.7

This one is a fairly famous site in England, Stonehenge. I think that the grayish rocks reflect the grayish sky nicely, though I changed the rocks to liven up the color.

UK Paintings, pt.6

So this paintings isn't my favorite because the colors didn't work out, but it's here. It's a cow. A cow from Wales.

UK Paintings, pt.5

It was another rainy day in London, probably the 400th of that year. I think it counts twice if it's rainy then sunny then rainy again. The guards at Buckingham Palace still had to guard it, though there was no changing of the guard ceremony that day due to the wet weather.

UK Paintings, pt.4

Roger smiles, he is at the Peterborough beer festival. Over 300 real ales to choose from, and he has the secret weapon in his pocket.

UK Paintings, pt.3

Back with another painting from the UK trip. This is a picture of Marlene, looking upon the area she grew up from a hill in Rhossili, Wales:

UK Paintings, pt.2

I wanted to put this one up because it turned out really well. This picture was taken from the front row of a double-deck bus on the way to London Bridge.

UK Paintings, pt.1

It's been a while to post on this blog, I know. I want to post something from my recent trip to the U.K., but I have so many pictures. Since there are too many pictures, I'm just going to post 12 small postcard paintings that I made from pictures taken on the trip.

I'm going to start with one of my favorites. It's a painting of the Scott Monument. It's very gothic:

The monument was always lurking in the skyline of Edinburgh. I didn't believe that people could climb to the top because it didn't look like there was any entrance to it, but there was. A very cool monument.