With me returning back to work I have not been able to spend as much time on the painting over the past week. I have though managed to finish the painting of the roof and have started inputting the wall on the fan window. I am hoping to progress this more over the bank holiday weekend.

Now showing a completed roof.

I have now started to complete work on the roof of the LNWR station. After adding some base colour I left this to dry before coming back to it to add the roof struts, pipes and other details. Over the next few days I plan to add the arch and other details before moving onto the front wall of the station.

Now showing the completed LNWR station roof completed.

I spent this morning working the sky into the painting. I have tried to use blues/reds and purples to give a “moody” feel to the image. Again  it shows Buxton on a cloudy overcast day, something that you get used too if you have live there!

As quite a lot of paint was applied to the image it will require the weekend to dry before I can start working on the main station buildings. Keep checking back for latest updates.

Showing the drawing with the sky now painted onto the canvas.

With Corbar Cross now complete I now have some time to paint one of Buxton’s lost views; the twin train stations. Although this scene has not entirely disappeared as the former LNWR station still survives today, the old Midland Station was demolished in the late 1960s. It now lies under the inner relief road and spring gardens car park.

As I struggled to find a detailed enough image of the two stations side by side I had to use Photoshop to transform and splice two images together. To help I have also found some detailed images of the Midland station but without the LNWR station in it. I am trying to recreate the scene as it would of been in the early 60s and so I am trying to create a slightly run down look, it will also be important to recapture the maroon colours of BR that are shown on the front of the stations.

Pencil outline of the 2 twin stations drawn into place.

Image was created using old images of the demolished Midland Station and Photoshop