Please forgive me
 

I would like to get as many people as possible visiting my stepfathers website

"Clan Line" is most certainly NOT a Britannia pacific !:eek:

I had a peek at the pictures, and to be quite honest they looked very "amateurish" ! Not that I could do anything like them myself, but compared to another railway artist who showed his wares on here recently they don't begin to compare. Sorry !

I totally agree Philip, there are several other glaring inaccuracies on there, "Bridgnorth Flyover" looks rather like Worting flyover to me, the one arriving at "Bewdley" is somehow doing the impossible and entering Bridgnorth "from the north", and there hasn't been grass growing out of that platform in all the time I've known it (since 1969), I could go on.........

Regards 62440.

Tell your father in law that railway sleepers are ALWAYS horizontal whatever your viewpoint. It is a point that amateur artists sometimes miss and it makes trackwork look silly.

Sadly have to agree with the above comments - not for me I'm afraid.

I have to agree with all the above comments. £50-60 will buy you a print by a number of respected members of the Guild of Railway Artists whose work is of a much higher standard.

There is an Exhibition of Rail Art at Eastwood in Nottinghamshire 16th May- 13th June featuring work by members of the GRA. I will try and find more information.

Best wishes,

John H-T.

Here is a link for the Rail Art Exhibition at Eastwood:

http://www.railart.co.uk/

Best wishes,

John H-T.

Thanks for your feedback
 

I have sent a link to my stepfather so he can read what you guys are saying. He is always thankful for feedback and appreciates you taking the time to view and comment on his art.

Hi Roger,

Looking back through the comments above including my own I hope they do not appear too harsh. However railway enthusiasts can be a "picky lot" and tend to have quite definate ideas about Railway Art. If you have followed the link above I am sure you will agree that the quality of the work produced by members of the GRA is of a very high standard. Even so prints do not command particularly high prices. Railway enthusiasts are a tight fisted bunch and do not readily part with much more than £50-60 for a print, even by the top railway artists. Equally originals rarely command prices much higher than a couple of thousand, perhaps twice that for the best unless your name is David Shepherd!

Hope these comments are useful.

Welcome to the Forum and I look forward to your posts.

Best wishes,

John H-T.

Sorry I don't understand this! I am not arguing I am just trying to have my ignorance explained.

If the tracks in the image are diagonal from background left to foreground right how can the sleepers be horizantal??

Also doesn't the angle they appear depend on the angle of elavation.

Surely they need to appear at the correct angle in relation to tracks?? and parallel to each other.

Please go easy on me I am not an artist in any way shape or form, I would just like some clarification. All I have to base my questions on are fleeting memories of being taught perspective at school (some 20 yrs ago)