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Steve Tompkins
@tomsk59.bsky.social
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Artist, activist, sea kayaker and hill walker Ex architect & theatre designer Painting in Cumbria and NW Scotland cofounder www.haworthtompkins.com www.architectsdeclare.com MBE Born at 316ppm
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · Nov 19
Hello Bluesky! I’m going to post some of my paintings of the NW British coast over the next few weeks - Cumbria, the Scottish Atlantic seaboard and the Outer Hebrides. I hope you enjoy them.
This is acrylic on watercolour paper, 950x1320mm
Lewis, Outer Hebrides acrylic on paper 950x1350mm
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 23h
October mist on North Uist, Outer Hebrides.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
300x200m
#Watercolour #Watercolor #ArtYear
#LandscapeArt #LandscapePainting
A watercolour landscape with a graduated dark brown/golden foreground, misty blue horizon and grey silver sky. Painted with earth colours, Cobalt blue and Ceruleum pigment
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 2d
Yeah I think it’s so hard to get the texture and scale from photos, everything flattens
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 3d
Working on it 😊x
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 3d
Hebridean atmospherics

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
300x200mm
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 7d
Thanks Si
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 7d
Love this!
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 7d
October dawn light, North Uist

Watercolour on Arches paper
260x180mm
#Watercolour #Watercolor #ArtYear
#Outerhebrides #NorthUist #Scotland
A watercolour sunrise with a shadow foreground, yellow pink horizon and a pale blue pink sky. Painted with Cadmium yellow, Cadmium red, Ceruleum, Cobalt blue and lamp black pigment
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 9d
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 9d
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 9d
Thanks Tara!
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 10d
Evening sun on the western face of Beinn Mhor, South Uist.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
300x200mm
#OuterHebrides #Watercolour #ArtYear #Watercolor #Landscapeart
A sunset watercolour with a dark maroon foreground, bright red horizon and cloudy pink/lavender sky. Painted with Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Raw Sienna and Ultramarine pigment
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 16d
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 16d
Sorry to hear that Jane - hope things improve soon. And yes, what a stunning sky!
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 16d
Always enjoy seeing your work - such gutsy confident technique alongside such a delicate feel for place
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 16d
Beautiful image Ian
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 17d
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 18d
April storm light on Sandwood Bay, Sutherland. A remote, sublime place to dissolve back into Nature.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
500x375mm
#Wateecolour #Watercolor #ArtYear
#Scotland #Landscapepainting
A watercolour seascape with a grey brown wet beach foreground, green stormy sea and a blue grey cloudy sky. Painted with Burnt Umber, Ultramarine, yellow Ochre and Viridian pigment
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 18d
Nice work!
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 20d
Thank you kindly!
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 23d
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 23d
Thanks - any amount of Turner would be so welcome!
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 24d
April morning mist on Lewis, Outer Hebrides.

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
700x550mm
#Watercolour #Watercolor #ArtYear
A landscape of Scottish moorland with a dark, highly textured foreground, pale grey/brown horizon and misty bright sky. Painted with Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna and Ultramarine pigment
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 24d
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Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social · 28d
Beautiful colour and light 👏