20''x16'' oil   bursledon brickworks open day, southampton, UK           © MARTIN DAVEY 2011 This is a 2nd painting of an open day at Bursledon Brickworks, Southampton UK . It is a heritage museum site, based in a old brickworks. This is a display of traction engines during April 2011. The engine featured is a  Aveling and Porter traction engine (TA  1063) .The museums tall chimney is a local landmark, although it is shorter than it used to be when the site was in operation. It was fun painting the shining brass, copper and the paintwork on the engines. The woman on the right photgraphing the engine was added later to add extra interest and scale to the scene, as was the boy in the trailer on the left. Getting the perspective correct in a scene like this is very important. It helps to sell the viewer of the painting the scale and weight of the machinery. Mechanical objects can not be cheated on when trying to ignore perpective, it has to be done right. The painting is done in oils on a 16" x 20" canvas.