These are paintings I did years ago. My family and I had traveled to Ireland and, inspired by the landscape, I began painting small landscapes from photos I took there. The paintings below are either from those photos or grew out of that project.
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Bird Rock – 1997 (off the Oregon Coast) 4″ x 6″ oil on board
Clair and Willie -1997 (my daughter and her dog) 24″ x 31″ oil on canvas
Long Walk Home -1997 (my daughters hiking on Omey Island, County Galway, Ireland ) 18″ x 24″ oil on board
This is one of my oldest daughter and my wife while she was pregnant with our second child 1987 11″ x 12″ oil on canvas
Steele Bridge 1997 11″ x 17″ oil on board
Em 1997 ( My daughter standing on the rocky coastline of Omey Island in Ireland ) 23″ x 36″ oil on canvas
this one is outside Cuca’s house, not Omey Island….
i love your paintings.. im beginning to paint with oil as well. would like some tips
I’m glad you enjoyed the work. The only tips I have for learning go paint are, if you’re already experienced in other media, I would advise joining a local painting class. If you’re new to art making, I would recommend getting comfortable drawing first.
Good luck,
Bill
gorgeous paintings! I love them all. Alright…my favorite is your daughter with dog. I am a sucker for a painting with a dog in it. Beautiful work. I am glad you have returned to painting.
Celeste
Celeste, thanks for your kind words.
beautiful paintings …glorious thick yummy colors…love the one of your daughter and her dog…and the port picture and well just all of them
Margaret, Thank you for all your kind comments. I hope you visit again.
love the work bill,,i live across from omey island and love your painting of it,,have a look at my work//regards cathal
Cathal, Thanks so much for letting my know you stopped by. I will definitely check out your site.
Hello Bill, I really enjoyed looking at your work, in particular the wonderfully fluid oil sketches, ‘Omey Cottage’ and ‘Briar Patch Poles’ are particularly successful and reminded me very much of John Constable’s ‘plein air’ studies. Your advice about getting ‘comfortable with drawing’ before focusing on painting is something I strongly agree with as, properly approached it encourages ’seeing’ as opposed to just ‘looking’; the subject must be interpreted, not slavishly copied, something that your oil studies in particular exemplify and do so refreshingly well.
If you want a photograph, take one, don’t try to paint one!
Thanks, Robert.
Robert, I’m very flattered to be mentioned in the same paragraph as John Constable. I like those early sketches and sometimes I think I painted better back then than I do now since I was thinking less and perhaps more spontaneous. I appreciate your comments.
enjoyed your work…..thanks
hi i really love your paintings,im a 4th year student and im beginning paint…..pls give me some tips on how to paint….
Dear Bill Sharp,
Your paintings are really awesome. All are wonderful but the “Em 1997″ is too good, Mindblowing.
Even i paint in acrylic colours but have not touched oil colours. Would love to gain some valuable tips from you.
Regards.
Anup
Anup, Thank you for your comment. I’m happy that you like my work. I’m afraid the only tip I can give you is to get out your paint box and paint a lot.