I found a way to put a border round my paintings for display purposes.

I am trying here to get moody effects by using a maroon sky and opposing broken colour and marks.

Here I have altered my palette and copied my own work by changing the colours to create different moods. Each painting has a dominant colour theme

I experimented with two contrasting colours, setting off orange and blue hues against eachother in this painting of a Cornish port.

RIVER BOATYARD. Another study using acrylic paint and Indian ink

ACRYLIC ON BOCKINGFORD PAPER

Here I messed around with the colours, keeping them in balance but adjusting the range. I used Indian ink, a variety of nibs and acrylic paint

Recently I have been painting several pictures in an A4 format (approx 29x21cm) in a loose impressionist style. However, this, of a Tuscan scene, is in more of a classical theme.

A selection of miniature paintings using watercolour, acrylic and inks which I have done in the past two years

I have loosened up my landscapes by introducing a more fluid and casual approach with broken colour and lines as illustrated here in these studies

A change in style for fun resulted in these paintings.

Here I am experimenting with black, white and silver ink together with watercolour paint on smooth hot-pressed paper.
I chose a beach-like scene drawing my figures extremely loosely with the result above.

An American academic from Palo Alto California commissioned me to paint Selwyn College Cambridge and the Radcliffe Camera Oxford, both shown above. I used ink and watercolour with acrylic paint on Bockingford paper, emphasising the crispness of the architecture against the casual painting of the foliage

Here are two more ink and wash paintings.
I use two pens of different thicknesses to enliven the line and fill in the colour, paying special attention to the relative contrasting hues in order to get a balanced picture

I went a little crazy today and painted St Katherine's Dock in a very loose ink and wash manner.
Letting the white of the paper show through occasionally livens up the scene.
I emphasised the ink line to give structure to the painting

Scotland's highlands are a constant source of inspiration for me.
Here is a view of Loch Clair and Liathach, the mountain in the background, with the sun streaming through...how that was painted is my secret!

And now for something completely different!

A decorative semi-abstract flower piece painted on watercolour paper using acrylic paint and ink.

The technical problem here is to achieve a balance of colours and contrasting tones

I normally make up my paler colours by adding white to a deeper version, but somehow a good pink had eluded me.
This week I bought a tube of acrylic CARNATION PINK , as the manufacturer called it.
As usual, something new inspired me and I painted these pictures employing the
colour in all its glory.

I have always enjoyed paintings with
"lost"and "found" elements in them.
I used this technique when I painted
these two ladies.
I restricted the palette to no more than
five colours in each painting.

For a change I fancied painting a portrait of this beautiful girl from a picture I had of her in a magazine.Her pose is quite hypnotic and appeals to me very much.
I worked in watercolour, creating a mystical background in various shades of blue and green to set her off

IF YOU LIKE ANY OF THESE PAINTINGS, I CAN ALWAYS PAINT A VERY SIMILAR ONE TO ORDER.
I prefer to paint in a 7"x10" format, but I can produce larger work on request.
If interested, please email me at fredericksegal@gmail..com
Thanks.