Tyne Bridge Newcastle Prints | Newcastle Limited Edition Prints – Alan Reed
Tyne Bridges Newcastle
A great view of Newcastle’s Tyne Bridges in this limited edition print of Early Morning on the Tyne.
Art Prints, Canvas and paintings of Newcastle Upon Tyne, North East England Cityscapes River Tyne and Quayside Newcastle. Prints of original watercolour paintings created by Newcastle artist Alan Reed available now for purchase via alanreed.com
This view of the Tyne Bridges was painted from the Gateshead side of the River Tyne. Most people haven’t seen in real life and yet still resonates with those who love the Newcastle skyline.
The City awakens to the first colours of another dawn. More Newcastle and Northumberland limited edition can be found here.
A unique collection of Newcastle Upon Tyne Fine art created by local artist Alan Reed. Tyne Bridge, Angel of the North, Grey street, framed prints Available in larger sizes please contact or telephone +44 (0) 1661 820626
Commissions
In 2017 I received a commission to do a very large oil painting of the Angel of the North. You can read about this commission in an earlier blog post. The Angel’s wings were coated with 22 carat gold leaf which make this this a unique masterpiece.
My client loves his painting of the Gateshead Angel and once I’d hung it for him we discussed a second commission to go alongside, this time a Tyne Bridge Painting.
After bringing the Tyne Bridge Painting close to completion I decided to add a little extra gold leaf. This resulted in me making a short video of the process which you can see on YouTube. First I applied some liquid size for the gold leaf to adhere to. The next stage is to place the gold leaf over the size once it’s gone off and it sticks straight away. As you can see in the video it also sticks where you don’t want it! I just have to carefully lift it off and put it where I want it to go.
Then with the backing paper over the gold leaf I can rub it down so that the bond becomes more secure.
As you will see, the video of the Tyne Bridge Painting is showing some of the smaller details of the painting process.
