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.

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.

Tony Montague workshop with Chester-le-st Friendly Art Group

 Tonys workshop involved painting tissue then cutting out shapes and sticking them on to watercolour paper. He also was developing the style of the American artist Gerald Brommer. These are examples of Geralds work.

Tony shares a joke with Maureen

 

My paintings using tissue paper on watercolour paper :-

 Lindisfarne Castle

 

Tissue added with PVA glue to rocks below the castle then sky painted. After drying the castle added and continuing into the rock. Some lines  where lifted on the rocks as the paint is sitting on the glue and will easily move.

 Tissue added in ramdon lines from a focal point and White Knight watercolours added and cling film for texture.

 Nchanga 'C' Shaft

   This was developed later at home with the shaft drawn freehand with grey markers sitting on a lounge chair looking at the image on the laptop and trying to keep the drawing loose. This is one of the two hoisting shafts at Nchanga Mine in Chingola Zambia where we spent almost 20 years at the start of our marriage.

Community Centre Chester-le Street Celebration

Chester-le-Street Art Society table with Beth and Olive showing different media used by the group in order to attract new members to the Tuesday morning group.

Friendly Art Group which meets every Wednesday morning show a selection of their work.

Chester-le-street-community-centre link

Friendly Art Group - my workshop with Honesty shapes. George in left front has his own website .

George Levitt website link

He has also an exhibition in the Washington Wetlands Centre during this month.

Article in local free paper resulted in six new members this week - Will they return!

My wash and pen study of Elvet Bridge Durham on 200 lb Bockingford paper using a bamboo stick to draw with sepia ink on to a previous variegated wash textured with cling film. 

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.