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 oil

Bird Rock – 1997 (off the Oregon Coast) 4″ x 6″ oil on board

Clair and Willie - oil

Clair and Willie -1997 (my daughter and her dog) 24″ x 31″ oil on canvas

Em and Clair on Omey - oil

Long Walk Home -1997 (my daughters hiking on Omey Island, County Galway, Ireland ) 18″ x 24″ oil on board

Les Em (and Clair) - oil

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

Bridge -oil

Steele Bridge 1997 11″ x 17″ oil on board

Em on Omey - oil

Em 1997 ( My daughter standing on the rocky coastline of Omey Island in Ireland ) 23″ x 36″ oil on canvas


15 Responses to “Older Paintings”


  1. 1 les
    October 24, 2007 at 2:32 pm

    this one is outside Cuca’s house, not Omey Island….

  2. 2 aylinkanginnadhi
    January 31, 2008 at 10:44 am

    i love your paintings.. im beginning to paint with oil as well. would like some tips :)

  3. 3 Bill Sharp
    January 31, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    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

  4. March 9, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    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

  5. 5 Bill Sharp
    March 10, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    Celeste, thanks for your kind words.

  6. March 31, 2008 at 5:59 pm

    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

  7. 7 Bill Sharp
    April 6, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    Margaret, Thank you for all your kind comments. I hope you visit again.

  8. June 5, 2008 at 11:27 am

    love the work bill,,i live across from omey island and love your painting of it,,have a look at my work//regards cathal

  9. 9 Bill Sharp
    June 5, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    Cathal, Thanks so much for letting my know you stopped by. I will definitely check out your site.

  10. July 21, 2008 at 4:14 am

    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.

  11. 11 Bill Sharp
    July 23, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    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.

  12. 12 elizabeth sk
    November 7, 2008 at 7:04 am

    enjoyed your work…..thanks

  13. 13 rachel karen luciana
    November 11, 2008 at 12:13 am

    hi i really love your paintings,im a 4th year student and im beginning paint…..pls give me some tips on how to paint….

  14. 14 Anup Mulik
    January 23, 2009 at 4:11 am

    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

  15. 15 Bill Sharp
    January 24, 2009 at 8:46 am

    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.


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