by Sam Robson aka LymphomaLass BA(Hons)
Oil Pastels
h: 21 w: 30 d: 1 (cms).
“Y Nyth – The Nest” is based on a reference photo provided by Liz Chaderton. It was published in the Society of All Artists (SAA) Paint & Create magazine, as part of a watercolour tutorial and as a resource for an “Artist’s photo, you paint it” challenge. The SAA challenge allowed members to use whichever medium they preferred, so I decided to use oil pastels, including Sennelier’s wonderful iridescent colours. I had great fun shading my eggs, blending matt and iridescent white, iridescent pale blue and silver, using Zest It Pencil Blend to thin the oil pastels, to give a sense of the curves and how the light fell on them. I named my work “Y Nyth – The Nest” because of a remembered conversation with my mother about what a lovely, homely house name it is, with there being more than one property in the village of Trearddur Bay with the name Y Nyth, which is Welsh for The Nest.
£145 (As exhibited.)
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by Sam Robson aka LymphomaLass BA(Hons)
Oil Pastels
h: 21 w: 30 d: 1 (cms).
"Rocky Coastal View" is based on a reference photo provided by the Society of All Artists (SAA) in their magazine "Paint & Create" in a tutorial by watercolour artist Tom Shepherd. I chose to accept the SAA's challenge of using it because of the technical challenges it presented for someone using oil pastels - to create the adjacent light and dark forms, the smoothness of the gradating colours in the sky and to a lesser extent the foreground, and the opportunity to add contrast by using this medium to create rougher textures on the rocks and in the sea. And it was a lovely image. I chose to focus in my rendition on the sense of peace the reference photo gave me, while adding a joyful “zing” to the sunset colours. I did a Google reverse image search on the reference photo after I completed my oil pastel piece and found it on Unsplash, that it was loaded by Andrej Lišakov and that it's Ursa Beach in Portugal.
£145 (As exhibited.)
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by Sam Robson aka LymphomaLass BA(Hons)
Watercolour Pencils
h: 21 w: 30 d: 1 (cms).
"Fleetwith Pike Reflected in Buttermere" is based on a photo I took looking across the lake in early December 2021 during a lovely walk on a fine winter day and was painted in June 2025. I created this image using Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils, which I think give a lovely soft feel to a painting without compromising on the vibrancy of colours. The only thing was I felt I had to be careful of was maintaining the right contrasts between the light and dark areas - enough to give a strong image but not so much as to give too stark a one. We don't often go walking around Buttermere as it can get so crowded that even driving up some of the surrounding roads can be hard, let alone finding a parking place. But midweek, outside school holidays, in the winter, it can be a wonderfully peaceful place - and so beautiful!
£145 (As exhibited.)
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