Lanchester collage of Middle Eastern City workshop

Collage using a 12x12 inch variegated sheet from the Works with magazine offcuts.

For the Cairo painting the pyramids where formed using a cut stencil and Distress ink from Ranger.

The main domes and minarets where placed in their approximate positions and remaining spaces filled with random offcuts maintaining verticals and horizontals. The sky remained the colour of the substrate.

Black lines using Uniball waterproof for the thin lines and Sharpie for the broader lines where used to indicated windows, doors, smaller domes, battlements and roofs.

Transparent burnt sienna was used to indicate the shallow behind the building with a blue glace added when dry to deepen the colour.

Cairo

My efforts

Jerusalem

Some of the members work after two sessions -still line work and shading to do

Week stay in Dalehouse near Staithes North Yorkshire

We stayed at a delightful cottage at Dalehouse Farm in the Post Box Cottage run by Gerard and Elaine Welford.

Link:- Dalehousefarmcottages

Weeks drawings on canvas boards

Monday morning was a frosty start.  Drove to Cowbar car park and walked down the bank to the North Side and sketched looking across Staithes Beck from a stone seat outside the first cottage over the bridge. Passed by several surfers running to catch the tide

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Tuesday afternoon Dalehouse Farm sketched from the far side of the beck with Post Box Cottage on the right hand side. The beck is called Newton Moor according to the farmer - it is difficult to figure out its name from OS maps, new and old. Several artists refer to the beck at Staithes as being Roxby Beck but the OS maps clearly called it Staithes Beck after this stream joins the Roxby Beck just to left of the photo.

An aqueduct once crossed the stream here as part of the mill race that supplied the former corn mill behind the Fox and Hounds pub.

Both drawn on 20x16 canvas boards with black pen, Sharpie and black biro.

Friday morning walk into Staithes and sketched the view in Seaton Garth near the second slipway.

After lunch at the Royal George of fish and chips for Pat and crab sandwich for me we met collage artist Marian Hill who had just finished a pencil sketch looking across the beck into the sun.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv4qJboF2WZ/

This is a link to her website

 http://www.marianhill.co.uk/

It was too cool near the sea so we sat in the lea of the bridge on the first bench. I closed the gap in the bridge and brought in Cowbar Nab at the left.

Both on 10x12 inch canvas boards with random collage of magazine text, tissue and  dress making patterns previously prepared in the cottage keeping the weight to the bottom. Same pens as previous.

Some watercolour- White Knight and white acrylic added in the cottage.