Deerness Art Group Painting Day at Ushaw Collage Durham

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My young assistant gives me help with the flowers.

From the Northern Echo -see link

From the Northern Echo

Norma looking serious

Margaret doing rhododendrons

Charlie and Deryck

Mick in the trees

Jill in the shade

Angela

Norma is awarded with the Bob Millar Trophy for her winning painting

 as chosen by resident artist Anna Lawson.

Norma's painting with a mount and frame.

My finished painting with some minor tweaks.

Workshops with Claire Money at Deerness Art Group 12 Nov 2017

Claire did a pastel demo using Unison Pastels on bockingford not watercolour paper of a rural scene in North Yorkshire.

 The white paper was edged with masking tape and covered with red pastel and blended into the paper. Part way through the sky Claire added the branches then added the clouds each side branch in the centre- I am not sure if this was the right approach as made this area more prominent rather than sitting back in the distance.
The overall composition remined me photo taken with the maximum field of view making the hills look very small. I would have made the hills larger as they would appear if drawn insitu and moved the recogniseable peak of Roseberry into the focal point. I am not sure of the dark tree shadow in the foreground - too much towards black.

Groups work

My work

 The River Wear below Finchale Abbey

The Coombes Martindale near Ullswater Cumbria

Sketch books

Deerness Art Group Oct 2015

Completed 3 watercolour paintings

High Burnhopeside Farm near Lanchester on Saunders Waterford 200 lb not paper.

Cellardyke Chimneys from over the harbour wall on Bockingford 200 lb

View from Anstruther to Cellardyke at low tide. Note the counter change on the fence in the bottom left. Again on Bockingford.

Friendly Art Group

Demo at Friendly Art Group of Bamburgh Castle. Two hours for painting and helping the other painters. Everyone given a 1/4 imperial sheet of 200 lb Bockingford not paper so we were working on the same paper.

Work at Deerness Art Group on Sunday 14 June 2015

Pen Porth Clais Pembrokeshire.

Watercolour changing sketch to portrait and moving the cottage to top and abstracting the foreground

Sketch for the holiday

Another sketch of the same cottage.

Acrylic painting - work in progress

Trees to finish and flying pigeons, crees, foreground pigeons and pigeon fanciers.

Watercolour- I do not think I will finish it.

Deerness Art Group sunday 10 may 2015

Tutor Gordon Hindmoor discussing figure drawing. My attempt at drawing people at a distance.

Members busy sketching.

Finished off two watercolours using double cling film texture for the foregrounds.

First wash after ink work.

Finished work Maston Ground Farm near Bowness Windermere in Cumbria.

First wash after ink work on SAA practise paper - does not give as bright colours as Bockingford.

Finished work Brimmer Head Farm Grasmere.

Deerness Art Group Sunday 9 November 2014

Dave Barden tutor again, he was here last November, and once  again encouraged our members to work from personal memories to produce a painting. He brought along two examples of his work both based around his love of music.

My project started by drawing using a black marker a flat view of Staithes bank .

Working on 200 lb Bockingford paper (actually the back of an old failed watercolour.) using coloured tissue paper aligned to the top of the roofs with a random bottom edge. Newsprint was added to some the walls. Watercolour was added to the base and textured using cling film.

Similar process used in the second painting but this time drawn in perspective.

I later sealed the paintings with acrylic medium and and over painted with tube acrylics to complete the paintings. 

 I used Google's Picasa 3 to create the mounts and frames.

Dearness Art Group Exhibition at Shepherds Dene Retreat near Riding Mill in the Tyne Valley

Six paintings entered into Shepherds Dene exhibition. I was only 2 weeks late as I had forgotten about the taking in day on the 4th October but the organiser Jenny Mathers kindly offered to take my late submission.

Link to Jennys website

Painting of Blanchland done the previous evening using collage and acrylics. This was a replacement for a painting I had sold on Artfinder website.

Waiting in reception for Jenny as we were a little bit early so it gave us time to look at the exhibition and the Warden also gave us a guided tour of the house. Deerness Art Group members were at the retreat for three days painting and were busy in the upstairs Newell Room and in the ground floor Garden Room . The garden was a riot of autumnal colour.

View from the Terrace Room.

Later we drove to Hexham and had lunch in the Chinese restaurant-( the worst Chinese I have ever had ) and then a walk around the town.

Dearness Art Group Sunday 14 Sept 2014

Acrylic on 20 x 16 in canvas board shows the Dairy Bridge on the River Greta just above the Meeting of the Waters on the River Tees at Rokeby Park. This was a favourite haunt of Turner and Cotman while staying at the Hall.

Complete the picture of the Highlight and Wooden Doll North Shields.

3 pictures taken to Rothbury Coquetdale gallery on Saturday

Dereness Art Group Sunday 13 July

Coloured tissue paper glued onto 20 x 16 inch canvas board using PVA glue.

Sketch started with waterproof ink

Sketch complete.

Acrylic painted added with matt medium to give transparent glazes to break up the lines of the tissue paper.

Staithes View to Mount Pleasant  20 x 16 inch