Magdalen College from the High Street
£1,500.00
Magdalen College from the High Street. Oxford College paintings by British artist and plain air painter Nick Grove. Urban Impressionist painter.
It was a dull and wet day in Oxford, and I hadn’t gone far from the car before I had to take shelter under the awning of a local café. I was immediately taken by the view towards Magdalen College. I ordered a coffee and selected a 16x12in (40.5×30.5cm) board to capture the scene. These size boards are my favourite to use. They are big enough to create a strong painting yet small enough to complete in one go. I chose to orientate this painting vertically. This way I could include both the wet pavements reflecting the brighter sky from above and the awning I was sheltering under.
I wasn’t in the mood to hang around for hours, so I decided to approach this painting with more freedom than usual and began blocking in areas with paint straight away. That way I could work wet into wet to help achieve the wet look and movement of the scene. In keeping with the scene, I used muted, dull colours with a great deal of grey. I prefer to reserve my cadmium colours for the accents. Traffic lights, for example, help the paintings pop!
12x16in
Oil on board
Framed
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