Switching from beach scenes to transport for the 30x30 means that I‘ve returned to some subjects I’ve done before. I thought it might be fun to compare them. Let’s start with trams:-
2018
Yes, I was painting trams even as far back 12 2018. I like
the composition, but the execution, not so much. But at that time I didn’t know
how to do it any better.
2019
This is Lisbon painted in 2019 and I’m sorry but it’s poor.
I’m not embarrassed because I know that I was doing the best that I could at
the time but I think it’s fair to say that I had yet a long way to go to find
my way.
2022
I mean, this is an improvement on 2019, but it’s still very
basic. This is a Swansea-Mumbles tram.
2022
With the benefit of hindsight, this 2022 painting was a
watershed for me. To me there’s been a huge leap forward since the tram
painting the previous year. This painting, more than any other, showed me the
way forward and showed me that I was capable ot painting direct watercolour as
well as my normal watercolours and acrylics where I sketched the design first.
It didn’t mean I would always paint this well, but it did mean that I could
strive to get there. This isn’t a perfect painting, I know. The perspective in
the tram body is wrong, unfortunately.
2022
I don’t think that this is as good as the one I’d already
done in 2022, but it’s still showing the kind of improvement I had made since
2021.
I did not paint another tram in 2023 or 2024
2025
Okay, so it’s a tram that has been parked for good and
converted into a café, but it’s one of the very best paintings I did in 2025.
2026
Maybe not as good as the 2025 vintage, but then the subject
did invite taking a more impressionistic approach.
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