Scarborough holiday

Sketches and paintings from Scarborough while staying at Manor Court, the first week in October 2022 Friday Day 1 Walk around Robin Hoods Bay in the rain.

Steps on Cliffe Street Robin Hoods Bay

The rest of the week walking from the flat or driving up to Castlegate and then into the South Bay Area.

Caslebank Scarborough

Scalby Mill North Bay Scarborough

Scarborough Arms

 Collage painted at home on 20x16 inch canvas board

View to Scarborough Harbour from Burr Bank

Drawings during the lockdown

 

Staithes composite drawing is taken from individual photos square on to each building and being such a narrow street I could not see the roof lines. This information I gleaned from photos taken from high points around the village. Also useful was Google street view who had a backpack camera walk through the village as part of the Cleveland Way. This is in an A2 Sketchbook which I cut in half lengthways.

Staithes High Steet left side walking down the village

From A5 book No 6

The Instagram task set by Brain

From an old holiday photo of Pittenweem

Staithes Beckside

Seaton Garth Staithes

Aird of Sleat on Skye drawn from Google street view

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Latest paintings

Collages

Newcastle High Level Bridge on paper 18 x 16 inches 

Alhambra - 20 x 16 canvas board

Pittenweem  Harbour 12 x 10 inches on canvas board

Watercolours on 15 x 11 Bockingford paper 250 lb

Deepdale Farm Langstrothdale Yorkshire 

Woodland walk

Pembrokeshire coast on Saunders Watercolour

Little Langdale Farm

Others

Bamburgh Castle -acrylic and pen

Helmsley  Yorkshire -Staining tissue on paper wetted to release the dye.

Newcastle - staining tissue on mount board

Staithes - staining tissue on canvas board

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

SKY ARTS LANDSCAPE PAINTER 2017 SOUTH GARE 14 June 2017 Wildcards

Bright morning at Paddy's Hole on the South Gare on Tees for the second days painting for Sky Arts. The pods were positioned looking over the green fishermens huts to the Teeside Steel Works while the wildcards were given the better view at the harbour- Paddy's Hole.
I positioned myself on the harbour wall looking to the other fishermens huts with steelworks as a backdrop and the North York Moors in the distance.

 The morning painting started with a watercolour wash then collage and ink work and acrylic for the highlights.

The afternoon painting show the boats and huts around to the left. The collage was done with the help of the daughter of the lady from Transylvania who helped me with the collage element and signed the lefthand side of the painting. I did the drawing and the acrylic highlights.
The lady  latter thanked me for getting daughter involved in art after her unsuccessful efforts.

The winner of the wildcards was Roy Carless from Hartlepool who in my opinion produced the best painting of the day including the pod artists.The judges kept referring to him on TV as ' chalky boatman'.

 Detail on Roy's painting.

I had a good time painting and meet some interesting artists but was disappointed that none of the judges or presenters spoke to me while last year everyone except Frank Skinner passed some comment.
Some photos from the day:-

 Windy on the top level.

 The lady from Transylvania with her daughter ( on the right ) my assistant for the afternoon.

 And finally me as I appeared on TV.

Paintings from random washes

Two 1/2 imperial sheets of SAA practise paper covered

in loose washes then cut in two and then painting subjects to fit.

                                    Snowdonia                                                                                                                                        High soaring birds

 Robin Hoods Bay New Road

Looking down on Rodin Hoods Bay

Both line and wash.

Staithes Art Festival 2016

Friday 9th September
Drove from home to Staithes and set up my art display in Trig Point, the former dining room at the top of the village.

Exhibiting with 6 other artist clockwise from the main entrance:-

1. Anne Ward
2. Jane Mercer
3. Dennis Rodall
4. Malcolm Coils
5. James McGairy
6. Sarah McKenzie

Ready for the preview night so we went to the cottage where we were staying at the former railway station waiting room at Liverton Mines near Loftus.

Trying different approaches

First painting with stronger tones at the top and softer tones at the base.

Bubble wrap used to texture the base then some light washes. Orrest Head in Cumbria base on photo on the net.

Overlapping washes and lifting out for the smoke.

Autumn morning Staithes-base on a sketch and painting I did over 15 years ago as viewed from Cowbar Nab looking up Staithes Beck.

This started with trying acrylic ink into watercolour and using granulation medium to break up the ink and allowing the paint to run down the page by gravity to form the trunks. I added some distress ink stamp using polystyrene block to give the small circles- this was wetted in places. With acrylic paint I was trying to get the paint to run off the end of a brush as I had seen in a video from Oz but the paint was not thin enough so I drew a dark outline  with a small flat brush-first with a house shape and then some random construction lines. This was wetted after half drying to give a grey outline. The acrylic colour was Deep Midnight Blue. I quite liked this effect.

Staithes Morning 15 x 11 ins on practise watercolour paper. 

I tried this method on an old acrylic ground, made using foam and textured rollers, I had lying around- seems to work ok.

Some ink was added to sharpen the edges.