Tag Archives: acrylics

View of Ballycotton Islands, November 2025

November 28, 2025 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged acrylic, acrylics, art, ballycotton, beach, east cork, garryvoe, islands, light, niall mccarthy, painting, photorealism, photorealistic, realism, realistic, winter | Leave a comment

I love the winter light on the beach, it feels like the genuine character of the place comes out.

Sea Mist Across Ballycotton Bay

September 25, 2023 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged acrylic, acrylics, art, atmosphere, atmospheric, ballycotton, bay, extremely wide, irish, metallic colors, metallic colours, mist, misty, muted, muted colors, muted colours, niall mccarthy, painting, panoramic, realism, realistic, sea mist, seascape, view | Leave a comment

Through The Open Doors

September 17, 2023 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged acrylic, acrylics, art, composition, corridor, domestic, doors, grim, interior, light, metallic, mother, niall mccarthy, open doors, painting, personal, realistic, sick, silver and gold, unusual | Leave a comment

Vertical Seascape

September 12, 2023 by eastcorkpainter in Uncategorized and tagged acrylic, acrylics, golden, mottled, niall mccarthy, ocean, painting, photorealism, photorealistic, realistic, sea, seascape, silver and gold, unusual, vertical | Leave a comment

Rapeseed Field Near Garryvoe Castle

May 24, 2023 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged acrylic, acrylics, art, atmospheric, castle, detailed, field, flower heads, glaring sun, gold, golden, iridescent, metallic, neon, neon yellow, niall mccarthy, oilseed rape, painting, permanence vs transience, photorealism, photorealistic, rapeseed, realistic, silver, sunset, transient, yellow | Leave a comment

Cube Shaped Masonry In Beach Gravel

May 11, 2023 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged acrylic, acrylics, art, detailed, gravel, grit, gritty, haptic, haptic art, hyperrealism, hyperrealistic, niall mccarthy, niall mccarthy 2023, painting, photorealism, photorealistic, stone, textural, textures, touch | Leave a comment

Interior Seascape

March 15, 2023 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged acrylic, acrylics, art, breaking wave, breaking wave painting, crusty, detailed, domestic, exterior, imaginary, imaginative, imagined space, impasto, interior, living room, niall mccarthy, painting, primary colors, primary colours, seascape, space, surreal, surrealism, wave | Leave a comment

Father Lying In A Wheat Field

January 20, 2023 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged acrylic, acrylics, corpse in a field, dead, death, detailed, direct sun, farmer, father, gold, golden, harvest, harvest time, iridescent, metallic, metallic paints, niall mccarthy, painting, perpetual light, ripe, silver and gold, summer sun, sun, sunlight, tim mccarthy, wheat, wheat field, wheatfield | Leave a comment

Sanderlings In, Sanderlings Out, Sanderlings In

December 31, 2022 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged acrylic, acrylics, beach, birdlife, birds, detailed, movement, niall mccarthy, painting, photrealistic, realistic, sanderlings, sea birds, shore birds, shore feeders, tiny birds | Leave a comment

Silver Sun Over Ballinwilling

September 28, 2022 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged acrylic, acrylics, art, atmospheric, Ballinwilling, choppy, contemporary, east cork, foggy, memory, metallic, misty, new, niall mccarthy, painting, realistic, sea, seascape, silver | Leave a comment