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Latest painting in progress 'Epic' NOW COMPLETE

'Epic' by Artist James Green. Depicting a powerful double header at East Lancashire Railway Steam Gala (20th Feb 2010)


Close up of the painting showing BR Standard Class 8 No. 71000 Duke Of Gloucester.


Close up of the painting showing BR Standard Class 7 No. 70013 Oliver Cromwell.

This was a challenging painting for me to do, the two trains themselves caused me the most problems. Getting the overall feel and light correct was not easy but in the end I feel I achieved the effect I was after.

A special thank you goes to railway photographer Robert Beardwell who gave me the inspiration for this painting. Without his kind permission to use one of his stunning photos as reference then this painting would never have happened. There is a link in stage 1 at the bottom of this page in which will take you to Roberts photo, follow this and you will see that I have changed the overall lighting among other things. For me the painting would have been too dark if I had followed Roberts reference precisely and maybe wouldn't have worked so well as a painting.

Anyway this painting is now available as a limited edition print, there is still time to order one for a late Christmas present, prices are as follows:

Mounted small (20"x16") £39.
Framed small (20"x16" £55.
Framed large (30"x25") £110.

Call me to order on 01733 203230 or 07786 995794

The original painting is now framed POA.

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Latest painting in progress 'Epic' NOW COMPLETE

NOW COMPLETE! I will upload photos of the finished painting on here tomorrow!

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Latest painting in progress stage 9 'Epic'

This is the last stage I will upload on here until I complete this painting, the oliver cromwell is nearly done as you can see and apart from from a few minor changes I now just have the task of painting the steam which should be fairly straight forward.

Im now around 2 weeks away from finishing!!

Im now taking orders for Limited editions of this painting so please email or call me to reserve one. These will be ready well in time for Christmas and will make great presents.

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Latest painting in progress stage 8 'Epic'

The front of the Oliver Cromwell engine has caused my many problems but I have finally got it correct! The problem being the reference Im working from shows this engine out of focus but this is the part of the painting I what to be the sharpest, thus slowing me down some what.

You cant really see the details I have painted here but I will upload close up shots of this painting once complete.

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Latest painting in progress stage 7 'Epic'

Here above you can see I have progressed on this painting with the 'Duke of Gloucester 71000' engine nearly complete, you can also see I have started work on the 'Oliver Cromwell 70013'. There is still more work to do on the 'Duke' detail wise but you can see its starting to look more solid. Steam is going to play important part on this painting, you can see I have started to apply a small amount already.

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Latest painting in progress stage 6 'Epic'

As you can see my website has gone through some big changes of late, the main change being a new zoom function which you can use in any of my galleries; let me know your thoughts on this I feel it works well.

Anyway during these changes a lot of my work on this section of my site was lost so I have uploaded new images below but all text and comments have been unfortunately lost.

So back to above image of my lastest painting, you can see now things really starting to take shape here. The painting will be showing a powerful double header 'Duke of Gloucester' and 'Oliver Cromwell'. I have now completed around 70% of the 'Duke of Gloucester' engine.

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Latest painting in progress stage 5 'Epic'

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Latest painting in progress stage 4 'Epic'

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Latest painting in progress stage 3 'Epic'

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Latest painting in progress stage 2 'Epic'

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Latest painting in progress 'Epic'

Here we have the 1st stage of my new painting which is going to be called 'Epic'.
I feel when complete its going to be something quite special. What your looking at here is just a tiny part of the painting.

The inspiration for this painting has come from talented railway photographer Robert Beardwell - who has very kindly giving me permission to paint this using one of his photographs as reference.

If you want a idea on how this painting will look when complete then please follow this link, here you will see Roberts superb Photograph which Im working from. You will then understand why this painting will be called 'Epic' and why I feel this painting could end up being something quite spectacular!

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