September Painting

Llanddwyn Pilots Cottages Anglesey- Watercolour

Staithes Mount Pleasant - collage and acrylic on 20x16 canvas board 

Staithes down from Mount Pleasant - Acrylic 12x10 inch canvas board.

Bullslaughter Beach South Wales- Watercolour

Durham from Crook Hall - watercolour

Lendal Bridge York - Acrylic and pen

Abstracted trees- watercolor

African Sunset painting along with Sarah Hill Durham artist demonstrating at the Friendly Art Group

Giraffes added the next day.

Durham Market Square with Lanchester Art Group

Saturday 31st August exhibiting with the Lanchester Art Group in the lower portion of Durham Market Square.

The boards were quite unstable and we had to hold on to them when the wind increased.

Top right are my 4 paintings.

 Only one sale, my painting of Staithes Footbridge. 

40 paintings exhibited on both sides of a security fencing boards on makeshift hooks.

9.00 til 4.00  sunny with light showers. 

Chris organised the hanging with help from Thelma, Joe,Lesley, Pam and myself. 

Olive and Christine arrived on the afternoon.

 Other artist displaying their work were:-

Karen Thompson - black and white pastels. I had met Karen previously at Chester-le St Arts Society and Deerness Art Group.  website

Brian Blake - fotosforart- Manipulated photos website

Meghan McCarthy - small drawing and paintings etsy store

Lady with torn collage paintings

Lady with Chinese ink drawings

and a chap with black and red paintings of local scenes.

Two of the boards did blow over because of the single arrangement of boards whereas linking in a zig-zag pattern would have been more stable.

Deerness Art Group Painting Day at Ushaw Collage Durham

Northern Echo Article link

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.

May Paintings

Staithes from the old viaduct abutment on the Cowbar side- Collage on 20x16 in canvas board.

Looking down on Gun Gutter Lane Staithes- 12x10in collage on canvas board.

Four collages on 10x12 in canvas boards trying to avoid horizontal and vertical line.

1 Dylan -early years

2 Nude

3 Girl in a hat

4 Bantu girl

Also several watercolours on 1/4 imperial Bockingford 200 lb paper.

Old Durham from a walk from Sherburn village

Painting with Hazel- High Birk Howe Farm in Little Langdale. Started the painting without a sketch so I had to move the building further apart.

Baxter's Wood and the River Browney near Durham City

Shell painting with Tricia McLaughlin at the Monday Art Group at Lanchester. Decided to add a beach scene to the composition. The Blast Beach looking across to Nose's Point and Seaham Harbour.

Stuck with what to paint at the Friendly Art Group so I asked one of the ladies for a number from 1 to 50 (sketch books) and a number from 1 to 65 (page numbers). 6 and 35 turned out to be Townend House in Troutbeck in Cumbria which I had drawn in July 97.

Second week with  Tricia McLaughlin was a seascape with a wet in wet sky.

My subject was Spital Point near Newbiggin-by-the-sea in Northumberland

Quink ink drawn with a kebab stick and washed with water to make the ink run. Initial wash was textured with cling film along the bottom and also used on the trees lifting slightly during drying. White Night Russian paints were used.

August Paintings

Bus into Durham - bought 3 canvases at the Works and pens at Poundland and draw the Corn Mill over lunch. Watercolour added later. I surprised the watercolour -White Knights- took to the canvas.

Collage of Swing Bridge and Newcastle on stretched canvas- work in progress.

Collage of Portloe in Cornwall on paper

Watercolour clematis with demonstrator Christine Cave from Washington (watercolour not her first choice of mediums). Not the right colour mix for white in shadow for flowers - ultramarine and burnt sienna- I used cobalt and rose madder - much warmer.

Watercolour of the Drongs in Shetlands 

Watercolour painted while Peter Robbins did acrylic of Beadnell looking across the harbour showing the boats.

Seaside Town

Workshop with Carrie Dennison from Stanley doing lino cut. Realised half way through that the image should be reversed so Staithes became a Seaside Town. Printed on prewashed watercolour paper.  Did another at home with the image reversed printed on plain paper.

Staithes

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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.