Painting at Beamish Museum with the Monday Lanchester Art Group

    A 9.00 am start and after being kitted out at the costume department with the ladies in long skirts and shawls and the men in blue smock shirts and khaki coats  it was then off to the Band Hall in the mining village. All the group painted in the hall with Lee being provided as a period model.

    I opted to draw in the village on to a previously prepared collage made from brochures from the Durham Heritage Centre on the Palace Green using trains from Tanfield Railway and characters from Norman Cornish with some of the Beamish brochure. The subject I chose was the pit buildings and shaft headgear.

Kitted out in period costume  - photo from Jean

Lee posing for John

Group photo - I'm missing- off sketching

Morning drawing done resting the canvas board on the upright sleepers ( tar marks on the back for authenticity )
Had to leave for a doctors appointment so I completed the colour work in the afternoon on my return working in the Band Hall. 

Finished drawing on 20x16 inch canvas board.

 
       Spent some of the afternoon exploring the village for future subjects. 3.00 pm finish- it was getting dark- and back to hand in our uniforms at the Resource Centre. 

Cold day but everyone enjoyed the experience which we hope to repeat next year when its warmer.

October Update

Lanchester Exhibition Saturday 19th and Sunday 20 October 2019

My board -sold three framed - Staithes Slipway, Chocolate Zebra and York Walls - one unframed from the browser - Staithes

My brothers Trevor and Graham visited the exhibition - Trevor was on holiday from South Africa.

The three of us 60+ years ago, Photo from Trevor. We must have been holding Father up from going to the pub.

Weeks holiday in Leith Scotland

Biro sketches from Notebook 3

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.

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

Workshop with pastel artist Fiona Carvell at Lanchester Monday Art group Oct 2017

First week
Fiona did a still life study with peppers and onion starting with the darks and then the lighter elements. She was using Unison Pastels.

 I choose to do a landscape based on one of my thumbnail sketches in Notebook 01

 Second week

Fiona demonstrated a beach scene near Dunbar.

 

This is one she did earlier. 

I did a beach scene at Dunbar looking towards Bass Rock.

I am still struggling with pastels.

Last four exhibtions of 2016

Lanchester Thursday Art Group Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th October 2016.

8 paintings but only 6 fitted on to the board and other two I was kindly allowed to exhihit on the front stage.

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Chester le Street Autumn Exhibition 

Last four are my entries. 

The exhibition from 5th November 2016 for a week in the Durham County Library in Chester le Street.

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Low Fell - Brush with Art on the 19th and 20th November 2016 at St Helens Church

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Durham Botanic Gardens for 3 weeks from 1st December to the 23rd December in the Tea Room.

30 paintings hung in less than an hour- all previously strung and labelled. 

A busy couple of months. 

Monday Art Group Lanchester-One demonstrator and one workshop

Jim Bradley - Raised balsa wood on oil paintings

Jim demonstrated his technique for tracing the shape, cutting out and gluing using araldite resin.

Some of his excellent watercolour paintings on display.

Painting for mining book

Clare Money - Pastels

 Clare works large scale, full or half imperial or larger using Unison Pastels on 140 lb HP Bockingford paper and she demonstrated a beach scene looking into the sun.

Clare at work and one of her painting.

The class chose a photo she supplied to work from. More next week.

Ndlovu paintings- African Bantu word for elephant

Elephant painting with Andy Taylor at Lanchester Monday Art Group.

Elephant with baobab tree

Cornwall paper pad 400 gsm by Hahnemuhle. Very soft

African dawn.

Initial wash textured using a sheet of perspex placed over a wet variegated wash. Egrets and tusks added with white acrylic. 200 lb Bockingford not paper.

Ndebele tribal designs with zebra skin marking added to elephant painting with baobab trees. 200 lb Bockingford not paper.

All paintings are quarter imperial (15 x 11 inches)

Lanchester Monday Art Group with Jina Gelder second demo

Completed tulips which I started last week

Jina finished the her demo by adding black ink with a dip pen which was ok in shade areas but on the top of the flower against the yellow and the white of the paper just looked out of place.

 Complete three landscapes during the week

Porthmadog farm

Bamburgh Castle

Thrum Mill Rothbury

Tried a pen and wash drawing after Jina Gelder

Yellowhammer on gorse known locally as a Scribbly Jack because of the patterns on its eggs.

http://www.thisisnorthumberland.com/northumbrian-wildlife/storm-cocks-and-scribbly-jacks/