cobbybrook
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By profession I am a train driver, but my days off are spent walking the hills and dales and then putting those experiences onto canvas…
Over the years I have tried many different media, including pen and ink/watercolour cartoons and mixed media, but currently I prefer acrylics on stretched canvas – acrylics allow me to experiment with marks and textures whilst the quick drying time means I can work over the top of previous layers on the same day, if required.
I like to work Alla Prima (wet into wet) and produce each piece in one attempt, if possible. However I will go back to add highlights or rework sections if necessary, but I certainly don’t spend hours and hours on each painting!
I am honoured to have had my work featured on a number of RedBubble groups, and I’m also very honoured to be a featured artist in Abstract Realism , British Painters and Impressionist Art – thank you all so much!
If you wish you can find out more about me on my website:
I am also on Facebook
Most of the work I produce is available to purchase – feel free to send me a message and make me an offer… (no sensible offers refused!)
Groups
cobbybrook is a member of # 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE , All Things Orange Artwork Gallery, Complex Simplicity of Art, Yellow Gallery, ! $$☻Get Art Promoted☺$$ !, ! 100% !, ! φThe Dreaming Treeφ !, " You Big SOFTY", "Mornings & Evenings -- Sunbeams & Storms" 1 photo per 24 hrs; 3 drawings or paintings per 24 hrs, "National Trust Properties" , "Real" Life Artwork (No Photography), * Painted Nature *, *Islands of The World* - 3/day limit, A Place To Call Home, Abstract Realism, Acrylic Painting, All About Water, All Around the Styles, All New Improved Seascapes [only upload one per day], All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Architecture and cityscapes, Art At Its Best!! - Featured Works Only, Art North West, Birds and Creatures of Flight, Birds Of Prey (3 per day), Bits and Pieces , British Painters, Cartoon Paddock, Cats and Dogs (1 artwork per day), Christian Churches, Statues and Crosses, Colour Me Vibrant Red!, Contemporary Pastel Painters (2 per day), Country Bumpkin, Creative, Talented, and Unknown, Cumbria.....Outside The Park (3 in 24hrs), Cutest of the Cute, Decorative and Traditional Art, Dimensions, Ebony and Ivory, Eerie Lighting, Everyday Life, Farms and Countryside, Featured Features - For Featured Art, Photography, T-Shirts, Writing, Fine Arts, First Things, Freedom In Words & Art, Freedom to Shine, Going Coastal (2 art per day), Hand drawn or painted vehicles, Hand painted or drawn Buildings and architecture, History, Horizons, Humorous Illustrations ( NO PHOTOGRAPHY ) , Hunting and Fishing the Great Outdoors, Impressionism Café, Impressionist Art, Lakes and Inland Waterways *one* per day, focal point - the water!, Landscape Painting, Light In The Darkness, Livestock in General, LMAO ART - Your funniest work, Masterpiece: Art, Mixed Media, Moody, Dark, Evocative (no nudes), National Parks of the World, Nature's Wonders, Nautical, Northern landscape, Nostalgic Art and Photography, Oil Painting, Out of the Blue (75%+ Blue), Painters In Modern Times, PEACE, LOVE & TRANQUILITY, Powered by Steam, Put Out! or Get Out!!!, Railway Art and Photography, Realist Paintings About Water, Realist Traditional Art, Rivers and Streams, Ruins, Ancient and Derelict Buildings, Rural Around The Globe, Rustic, Safe Haven, Scenery, Scotland For Sale, Scotlands History, SEA, Seasonal 'Scapes, Self Expression, Shameless Self-Promotion, Sleeping Creatures , Snail Mail, Solo Exhibition, Spiritual Art, Stillness Speaks **Max 2 uploads per day** {{No NUDES, ABSTRACT, CANDIDS or ACTION IMAGES}}, Textures Unlimited, THE 500 TO 5000 VIEWINGS GROUP, The Beauty of Nature (Nothing Man-Made), The Lake District - National Park - 3 A Day, The Patchwork , The Scots are Coming, The true beauty, This is England, Trains, Trees - 2 images per day with trees as the focal point, Tuesday Afternoon, UK National Parks, Unique Buildings Of The World, United Kingdom, Vibrant and Vivid Color, Vibration in Art and Verse - VAVoom!, Wales, Rich in Beauty, Water Media (Paintings by hand only), Who are YOU to Judge?, Works On Paper and Yorkshire Grit.
Journal Entries
Paintings are not photographs!!
Posted about 1 month ago, 11 comments so far.
Please welcome my daughter!
Posted about 1 month ago, 1 comment so far.
Facebook Fanpage
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Posted 2 months ago.
Top Ten!
Posted 2 months ago, 2 comments so far.
Website
Posted 5 months ago.
Art
Writing
Milestone!
I’ve just noticed that ‘Safe Moorings’ has had 500 views and 15 favouritings so far to date! Thanks folks! Martin http://www.redbubble.com/people/cobbybrook/art/3463595-3-safe-…
Win An Original Painting!!
Win a Painting!!
If you like my paintings you can now become a fan on Facebook! Follow the link below… http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Martin-Williamson-cobbybrook/106242293983?ref=mf
Featured Works
I would just like to express my thanks for the kind features of two of my recent works: ‘Ingleborough, Yorkshire Dales’ in Art Noth West and British Painters and ‘Dervaig Sunset, Isl…
