Notebook sketches

Golf Hotel Fife and Auchmithie in Scotland drawn from Google Earth.

High Hallgarth house in Little Langdale Cumbria

and

Durham Cathedral from the Racecourse

Hartsop Cottage and Barass Square Staithes North Yorkshire

Grasmore from Rannerdale Knots Cumbria

Back of Dove Cottage Grasmere Cumbria

Peinchorran Loch Sligachan from Google Earth

Port Erroll Cruden Bay Scotland

Entered this sketch page in ' paint the seaside ' competition on the Painters Online website and was selected as the winner. The prize was a set of watercolour pencil and graphite pencils - both I don't use so I'll give them to the grandchildren.

My collage workshop at Chester-le-Street Tuesday Group.

Two projects :- Town scene and Vases

Random collage strips on a sheet of mount board and a quarter sheet of 200 lb Bockingford using tissue, newsprint and wrapping paper.

My paintings

Staithes

Vases shapes from stencil then negative flat opaque painting for the background and transparent darks for the table and some tinting on the vases.

Some of the work in progress.

Catch up time

Three Workshops at Monday Art Group Lanchester

Painting stones with Angela Beattie

My rock painting

Angela's rocks

Trying the dot needle with little success

Brusho with Gavin Mayhew over two weeks

Three painting using brusho. First one sprinkling the brusho onto wet paper to simulate flowers then a Lake District scene added to the top in watercolour.

Troutbeck Cumbria

Second painting on clear gesso with the brusho blended on the paper using two colours.

White cottages added with white gouache and the detail added in watercolour

Far Sawrey Cumbria

Final painting- again blending the brusho on the paper then when dry an Italian landscape added and the sky in black acrylic. The foreground was crumpled tissue paper with brown ink brushed on to enhance the edges of the tissue.

Bagnoregio Italy

Gestural Drawing with Renira Barnes

Drawing in mixed media started looking at the object then drawing, then not looking at the paper and drawing then I quickly lost interest.