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A moodie skye neist point feat

A Moodie Skye Part 5 – Neist Point

By Andrew Moodie
3rd June, 2025

PLEIN AIR PAINTING WITH UNISON COLOUR PASTELS. MIXED MEDIA (INKS AND UNISON COLOUR PASTELS)

Neist Point lies at the westernmost tip of the Isle of Skye and the lighthouse has been there since 1909. It is a beautiful viewpoint but it also tends to bear the full force of the wind blowing from Ireland and the Hebrides.

Watch me battle with the elements to create a mixed media painting, starting with an underpainting using acrylic inks on watercolour paper (Moulin du Roy HP 300gsm), before driving rain and wind took over!

I was so delighted to have the opportunity to complete the pastel stage of the painting in the HQ of Unison Colour at Thorneyburn, near Hexham, in Northumberland. This provided a wonderful chance both to complete the painting using expressive pastel marks but also to offer a glimpse of the home of Unison Colour and meet some of the people who make and deliver worldwide our favourite pastels!

Thanks again to my filmmaker, Tony, of T.P. Visuals who managed to save his super expensive technology from being blown away and drowned!

Andrew Moodie

Unison Colour Associate Artist

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