'Transition' My 2012 Solo Exhibition of Scottish Landscape Paintings

TRANSITION

2012 Solo Exhibition

Ian Kenny Gallery, Hamilton

Preview night

by Scott Naismith Scottish Landscape Artist

As I write this blog, its half an hour before the paintings for this year's solo show are available to view and buy online. This gives an online audience the opportunity to buy or reserve paintings 2 weeks before the exhibition previews.

Buying art online from a small image on a screen is a risky prospect for most people. Owners of any of my paintings will be familiar with the quality of work 'in the flesh' and will no doubt have no concerns about committing to buy in this way. If you're unsure, just contact the gallery and you could register an interest in a painting in order to better guarantee it's availability to you at the preview night. Please note that those wishing to commit to a purchase will take priority. Hope to see you all on Friday 31st August 2012.

In the mean time, here's a few teaser images...

 

UPDATE: Images for exhibition are now live and available >> TRANSITION

WIN an Original Oil with "Art Takes Times Square"

 Art Takes Times Square happens TONIGHT in New York!!! Thanks to some tremendous support for my work online, I'm now showing amongst many artists around the world on 9ft x 12ft screens on Times Square!


 


Today is the big day! In just a few hours, Art Takes Times Square will present thousands of works by artists from all across the world (including ME) in an immense art exhibition in NYC. 


Art Takes Times Square Monday June 18, 2012, 7pm - 11pm 
Broadway between 42nd Street and 44th Street Hosted by Questlove of The Roots Featuring brass bands, performers and works by thousands of artists (including ME!)


My work is estimated to be displayed on a 9 x 12 ft digital screen located on Broadway and 43rd Street between 


7:45pm - 8:15pm (New York Time) or 
12:45- 1:15am (UK time). 


 YES The Scottish Landscape will be donning the screens of Times Square Tonight! 

 See live webcams for two of the numerous billboard screens that will display my work at: http://www.see.me/june18th/ If you watch it and see my work, hit screen grab (print screen), and post the image to my facebook wall. 1st to do this will get a FREE original oil painting 15 x 15cm! Worth over £100! 

 GOOD LUCK

The New Blurb Book of Paintings from Scott Naismith

Scottish Landscape Painting by Scott Naismith | Make Your Own Book

My New book is titled 'Scottish Landscape Painting' and depicts a selection of work completed between 2009 and 2011. Alongside these images are a selection of my 'instagram' shots. Instagram is a photo sharing app for the iphone. I use instagram to document daily activities around the studio, in galleries and on location. In the book you are able to get not only great full colour images of the final paintings themselves, but an insight into my sketchbook work, inspirational photographs from my travels, and work in progress shots from the studio.

I would recommend Blurb books to anyone looking to record colour images in a book format. Their print to order method means books will be more expensive than 'off the shelf', but they're still surprisingly affordable for the quality. This latest one of mine retails at around £27 for softcover and £34.50 for hardback. The book is 7 inch square and its 120 pages are printed on premium paper and full colour.

You can get a virtual look at 15 of the pages using the widget above.

Limited copies of the book will be available at the preview of my Solo exhibition in Hamilton on the 30th September

The Expanding Miniature oil painting collection.

Since the European network of Galleries, 'Carré D'Artistes' contacted me interested in my work, I have been producing a collection of small oils on board. I've been happy with the results and have generated lots of ideas for bigger paintings to emerge later on. Normally I wouldn't sell my small working sketches which normally don't leave the sketchbook. This means I'm usually very free and experimental not worried about them being too polished, so I'm trying to keep that freedom and life to them even though these will be going to galleries.

It's great to be able to offer original work at such an affordable price. The sizes and prices will be as follows:

10cm £59

15cm £98

20cm £162

30cm £298

I took my first 2 10cm square studies to my framer Ian Kenny in Hamilton. The Images at the top show what a great job he did. I told him to frame it to the best standard he could, so he used:

Gallery-gold frame : Archivally shadow-float mounted : Hand painted bevel detail : Museum grade uv Waterwhite glass

The little studies, once framed, came in at £195 and both sold to a quick customer the same day.

So the popularity of these studies does mean that some will end up in my usual Scottish outlets. So nip in, choose a frame for it and take it home for an affordable price. Alternatively you could pick one up online by checking my facebook page (link on the border of this blog). Just leave me a note on the image you like and I'll reply with a link to a buying page and have it delivered unframed at no extra cost!

I'll be sending out a tweet when work is delivered to the galleries, so make sure to follow @scottnaismith or check my twitter feed on the home page of my website.

Glen Spean Light painting demonstration PART 2

The second part of my painting demo is much better quality, don't think I'll be filming much on my phone any more!

Having difficulty getting the movie uploaded here, so you can see it at my website in the Video section.

http://www.scottnaismith.co.uk

Studio Photos

Here's some of the photos taken to promote my online virtual solo exhibition on redbubble.com on the 9th November

November Update

Lots of merchandise (including calanders, prints, framed prints, canvas prints, mouse mats, jigsaws, mugs etc) ideal for christmas presents available from my deviantart site at:

http://naismithart.deviantart.com/

Prints and 2010 calanders also available at my redbubble site :

http://www.redbubble.com/people/scottnaismith

Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/scottnaismith

Become a fan on facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scott-Naismith/107776392866?ref=share

Showing at the Edinburgh art fair with Scotlandart gallery: http://www.artedinburgh.com/

Recent commission completed of Portencross Castle and the view to arran. Another happy customer. Here's the painting: