With this film, I wanted to give you an insight into my painting process and also provide some tips to help you as well. Sorry for the...

Yesterday evening, I was at the Solway coast in Cumbria, a beautiful location that borders Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland. The lighting was really interesting, prompting me to begin an oil painting using a mix like Naples yellow against a raw umber primed background, which worked well off each other. I initially outlined the main features, adjusting the horizon's height. Subsequently, I filled in the sky and beach with a heavy, moody grey-blue shade, darker than the actual

This is my essential equipment list I take when painting with oil paint en plein air. There are links in the description to the shops I bought them from. All of this fits in a back pack and panniers on a mountain bike, which gives me the freedom to explore the surrounding countryside easily and to be able to stop pretty much anywhere and set up the tripod and pochard box in the landscape. Pochard box I bought this lightweight box from Jacksons art supplies, https://www.jack