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Ken Bushe 2014

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Sky Paintings / Cloud Paintings

All these paintings take the sky or clouds as their main subject. Scottish skies are well known for the extreme range of colour and light which can be observed on a daily basis.

I’ve always reacted strongly to the landscape of the sky and if I could live in it, I would.  Painting clouds and sky are as close as I can get.

The significance of this moving cloud landscape on our daily lives and emotions can’t be overestimated, and when we now spend  much more of our time indoors it is  important not to shut it out of our lives to our detriment, as though these things don’t matter.

Sky in March   8x10ins.  Oil on Canvas                                                                    Sold

Sunset Study 5    8x10ins. Oil on Canvas                                                                 £250

Sheriffmuir 2   8x10ins.  Oil on canvas                                                                   Sold

Rainbow   10x12ins.    Oil on Canvas                                                                   Sold

Stunning natural phenomena. No wonder they fascinate our species. This rainbow hung around for far longer than most.

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North Sea from the Earth House  60x75cm.  (24x30ins approx.)  Oil on Canvas            Sold

Blue Sky and Cloud Study 2   6x8ins. Oil on Canvas                                                Sold

River Tay Cloud Study   8x10ins.    Oil on canvas                                                      Sold

.”....Wind and clouds are part of my life”.

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Cloud Painting   8x10ins.  Oil on Canvas      Cloud Painting                                          £190

Cloud painting - begun outdoors and finished over several days in the studio.

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Sheriffmuir   10x12ins.   Oil on canvas     Cloud Painting                                            Sold

A day of exhilarating, powerful light, almost theatrical at times. More

Cloud Composition  10x12 ins  Oil on Canvas     Sky Painting                                       £250

Clouds near Newburgh   10x12ins.   Oil on Canvas   Sky Painting                                Sold

Cloudscape near Newburgh in Fife with the River Tay in the foreground. The river road to Newburgh is a visual feast for anyone who loves skies...

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September Cloud Study  8x10ins. Oil on Canvas      Cloud Painting                            Sold 

August  10x12ins   Oil on Canvas       Sky Painting                                                  Sold

“The soul can split the sky in two” - Edna St Vincent Millay

...There’s some palette knife work in the foreground but most of the work is done with brushes

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Cloud Study 3    Oil painting on canvas  10 x12 ins.    Sky Painting                               Sold

Backlit clouds from high ground north of Alyth.

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The Touch  6x8ins.  Oil painting on Canvas                Sky Painting                              Sold

Clouds in April   8x10ins.   Oil on Board       Sky Painting                                           Sold

First Call  Oil on Canvas  24x30cms.  (approx. 9.5x12ins)  Sky Painting                            Sold

......inside the mechanism that rotates around sunlight and clouds.

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Cloud Study 6  8x10ins.   Oil Painting on Canvas        Cloud Painting                             Sold

...from a detailed pencil sketch...

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Late February Sky   10x12ins.  Oil on Canvas           Cloud Painting                               Sold

A progression of the original oil sketch (see here) to ...take the image a bit further.

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The Sky Near Dun Moss  8x10ins.  Oil on Canvas      Sky Painting                                 Sold

The mercurial sky of the moors beyond....

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September   45x60cms  Oil on Canvas    Sky Painting                                                     Sold

We seem to have the ability in rare moments to expand our own being to become aware of our true self standing beside us....

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Paintings of Moonlight

Paintings of moonlight still need to be luminous, if a convincing picture of the moonlit sky is to be painted. Clouds transmit and reflect the moon’s light in a broadly similar way to sunlit clouds, but our eyes lack the sensitivity to appreciate this fully. The strangest thing I have seen in a moonlit sky was a moonbow, a pale spectral form of rainbow.  - Painting Moonlight

Four similar sized studies I did of moonlight and the surrounding halo of colours observed as night clouds slowly passed across the moon on the 6th June 2009.

The experience of looking directly into the light, to me, brings to mind all of the symbolism and mystery that we have associated with the sun and light throughout our the history of our species.

It also damages your eyes.

The sky emits light. While this is an obvious statement, painting the sky with oil paint is often better served by a different approach than to a normal subject. While most landscape paintings can have a structure based on shadows, painting skies often requires that the highlights are given prominence and are painted first, with the rest of the painting following on from these.

Outdoor oil painting is central to sky based work. Oil sketches painted on the spot have a life and luminousity of their own and are a pretty essential part of understanding the complexities of painting the sky and clouds. -  Outdoor Painting   -  Oil Sketches

Painting sunsets give the landscape artist the opportunity to explore the widest range of colour and tone that can be seen in nature, far wider than the best paint and the whitest canvas can cope with. Dealing with this limitation is the fascination of my job.

Both John Constable and J.M.W. Turner have both influenced my painting to a large extent. Both  artists spent a massive amount of time observing and painting outdoors, and the majesty of the natural world inspired them much more than the established art of their day.

JMW Turner