Midsummer Golden Sunset -Sold

December 10, 2015 by eastcorkpainter in acrylics, art, landscape, painting, skies, sunset and tagged acrylic, acrylics, art, artist, atmosphere, atmospheric, cloud, clouds, cloudy, colorful, colourful, direct sunlight, east cork, evening, golden, inspiration, inspiring, ireland, irish, landscape, light, midsummer, new, niall mccarthy, original, painter, painting, powerful, realism, realistic, rural, scenery, scenic, shadow, sky, summer, sun, sunlight, sunlit, sunset | Leave a comment

Delphiniums Backlit By Evening Sunlight

September 21, 2015 by eastcorkpainter in art, flowers and tagged art, awesome, blooming, blue, bright, delphinium, delphiniums, detailed, evening, flower, flowers, full, garden, healthy, irish, light, nature, oils, painting, plants, rays, realism, realistic, spectacular, summer, sunlight, violet | Leave a comment

Zeal

October 5, 2014 by eastcorkpainter in art and tagged acrylic, acrylics, art, beach, ireland, irish, new, painting, realism, realistic, summer, sun, sunlight | Leave a comment

A Constellation of Dahlias

February 19, 2014 by eastcorkpainter in Uncategorized and tagged art, bloom, blooming, bright, dahlia, dahlias, eastcorkpainter, flower, flowers, irish art, light, niall mccarthy, painting, summer, yellow | Leave a comment

A Constellation of Dahlias

Decided to use a dark background, because the star shapes of the dahlia flowers are reminiscent of stars and so the overall piece is like a constellation in the night sky.

Garryvoe Beach, July 2013 – Sold

July 16, 2013 by eastcorkpainter in Uncategorized and tagged art, beach, calm, niall mccarthy, oils, painting, sea, seaside, summer | Leave a comment

Garryvoe Beach, July 2013

Painted from life. I was sitting on the scorching hot sand for two hours painting this. A heatwave was in full force.

Roses – Sold

April 28, 2013 by eastcorkpainter in Uncategorized and tagged art, eastcorkpainter, flower, flowers, fota, fota gardens, irish art, nature, niall mccarthy, paint, painting, plants, rose, roses, summer | 1 Comment

Roses

Since I started using oils in January 2012, a lot of my pictures had quite muted colour schemes, especially the last two I did. So in this one I used a variety of bright colours on the roses. The central pale rose had to have very pure mixes; the slightest amount of impurity and the colour would be a faded grey mud. Overall this was a very challenging and absorbing painting.

Red Lupins in Fota Gardens

April 27, 2013 by eastcorkpainter in Uncategorized and tagged acrylics, art, eastcorkpainter, flowers, fota, garden, irish art, lupins, midday, nature, niall mccarthy, painting, plants, red lupins, summer | Leave a comment

Red Lupins in Fota Gardens

Now this was intense work! All fine detail from one side of the board to the other. A week into it, I had to do another painting because I knew I was in for a long haul and had to do something else to have a sense of completing something. I think it was worth it though.

Summer View of Garryvoe

April 7, 2013 by eastcorkpainter in acrylics, agriculture, art, landscape and tagged acrylic, acrylics, agricultural, agriculture, art, calm, coast, coastal, countryside, east cork, fields, garryvoe, ireland, irish art, land and sea, painting, rural, scene, scenic, summer, sunset, view | Leave a comment

This is the first of my views of Garryvoe the place where I live. The view is from one of our fields, the ‘High Field’. I had been wanting to do this view for a few years before getting around to doing it. At the time, it was a very ambitious goal. The sky appealed to me a lot, I like how over in the east and south opposite to where the sun sets, the sky goes purple to a deep blue near the horizon.
Painted from 28th June to 23rd September, 2006.