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  • Eric Bottomley's Transport Gallery

    A Journey Across the Canvas

    by Eric Bottomley ...
    This is Eric Bottomley's second art book, in which he has varied both his transport themes and the mediums in which he works. The majority of paintings are in oils but also included are gouache (watercolor) and pencil sketches. However, some paintings are both gouache and pencil, together known as mixed media.Railways have always been a great passion of Eric's, from trainspotting around the ex ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chadbury: A Town and Industrial Scape in '0' Gauge

    by Eric Bottomley ...
    Most people's perception of a model railway is an arrangement of track work, decorated with some buildings and a cursory backdrop rising briefly to a sloping ceiling. Not so with Chadbury. When you walk into what was a 17ft square, double garage, you enter another world. The eyes look up before they look down at a painted backdrop, which is 8ft high and painted in oils, with watercolor landscapes ... Read more

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