Yellow Craigs - Limited Edition Print number 1 of 25 Painting

Morning sun over Arthur’s Seat and Salisbury Crags from my former studio in Newhaven, Edinburgh. That morning there was that unusually rich, warm light that holds only for a few minutes on a handful of days each year. I watched, enthralled, stealing a few shots with my camera before settling down with my paints and a cuppa and seeing where they led me. You never quite know if you’re going to be able to capture the atmosphere of a scene. On this occasion I was happy to claim victory. My technique for this work involved masking the highlights before adding a series of fairly loose washes, lightest to darkest, paying careful attention to where warm and cool colours appeared and controlling their relative strength in order to define the haze and portray aerial perspective. This is a signed, unframed, limited edition, giclee print (number 1 of 25) on slightly textured A2 size art paper and comes signed and numbered by the artist (the original has been sold)