Oil Painting of fishing boat being launched at Aldeburgh, Suffolk

Detail from "Morning Launch", Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
Oil. Alistair Butt © 2013 - #AB 021346

My first visit to Aldeburgh was back in 1984. Back then there were more of these wooden fishing boats on the beach, sadly the numbers have declined with the passing of time but a number of boats (old and new) still supply the fish huts that line the beach road.

This fisherman was single-handed launching this boat... the rope that can be seen going out from both the bow and stern passes a winch motor (the yellow circle) which slowly moved the boat into the sea - this allowed me the time (as always longer would have helped) I needed. The fisherman mean while was collecting the plastic runners (used to be wood) that the boat slides one. The beach is mostly shingle but at low tide more sand is exposed.

From Mall Galleries - Submit now to the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition

Open exhibition - ROI call for entries

Founded in 1882, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) is the only national art society devoted exclusively to oil painting.

Acceptable media: Oils.
Acrylic is acceptable if it is framed as an oil, so as not to spoil the general appearance of the exhibition. Glazing or wide mounts between painting and frame, as in watercolours, are not acceptable.

Conditions:
Maximum of six works submitted. Maximum of four works selected. Work must have been completed within the last two years.
All works must be for sale. Minimum price: £300.

Submission fee:
£12 per work (or £6 for artists under 35)

Awards & Prizes:
Many prizes are available, including the Phyllis Roberts Award of £2,000 for a promising young painter, the Winsor & Newton Oil Painters Awards (for artists under 35 years of age), Winsor & Newton Awards to Non-Members and the Alan Gourley Memorial Award of £1,000.

Submit online here - this links to 'call for entries' page on Mall Galleries website where details of how to submit, registration forms etc can be found...

Deadline for ROI: 10 October, 12 noon

Are you an artist and under 35 years

Winsor & Newton Oil Painters Awards 2013 for artists aged 35 or under
More details of at www.mallgalleries.org.uk

First Prize: £1,000 Winsor & Newton Fine Art Materials
Second Prize: £600 Winsor & Newton Fine Art Materials
Third Prize: £400 Winsor & Newton Fine Art Materials

Oil painting of Cornish Cliffs below Tintagel Castle

Detail from "North Cornwall Cliffs", Tintagel, Cornwall.
Oil. Alistair Butt © 2013 - #AB 021345

This painting shows just part of the cliffs below Tintagel Castle, the reputed birth place of King Arthur.

For more information about the castle which is now run by English Heritage click here. Scroll down the page shows a box with 'gallery' images... the fourth one shows the cliffs and part of the castle but viewed from an slightly different angle (to the right)

More Marine Oil Paintings started

Some of the next group of marine paintings started - the above shows four of them with the line work done...

Above, the same four but now with the under painting done and ready for the further work.