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Friday, 28 July 2023

Stayed at the Three Bridges Apartment overlooking the Firth of Forth.

Queenferry Sketches

Edinburgh Road in Queensferry

The other side of Edinburgh Road.

Plewlands House at the bottom of the Loan on the High Street

High Street houses looking south

View outside of the apartment on the Binks to Forth Bridge

Forth Bridge from Newhalls

Sketch from the harbour wall looking back to the Tolbooth

Mondays drive to Culross calling in at North Queensferry on the way back.

Culross walk from the west car park 1.8 miles

Top to Tanhouse Brae looking back to the Forth of Firth. We could smell the chemical works from the other side of the Firth.

Red Lion Inn

Looking back to the village centre on the Low Causeway

Looking back to the previous sketch

Back Causeway Culross

Thumbnail sketches in my Diary

Drawing on 20x16 inch canvas board for future collage.

Morning sketch looking across the harbour - very quiet - 20x16 inch canvas board

Work finished on returning home.

South Queensferry Harbour -collage, pen and acrylic

Former Seals Craigs Hotel South Queensferry from the Craigs' headland -collage, pen and acrylic

Culross Cottages - pen and watercolour

Culross Pottery - pen and watercolour

Culross back lane just off the Lower Causeway - pen and watercolour

Cottage opposite Cramond Harbour - I enjoyed using a pencil without any ink.

Friday, 30 December 2022

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

Monday, 27 September 2021

Notes on my collage technique

250 lb Bockingford paper

Substrate

1 Canvas board

2 Stretched canvas

3 Heavyweight paper 200lb and above

Found papers for collage

1 Text from magazines

2 Coloured tissue paper - staining and non-staining

3 Dressmaking patterns

4 Wrapping tissue paper

5 Coloured patterned paper

6 Gelli pad designs on paper and strong tissue paper

7 Holiday and promotional brochures, postage stamps, maps, inside patterns in envelopes etc

Glue

1 Acrylic Matt Medium - peels away easily from the fingers when dry- my favourite

2 Others Mod Podge, PVA or wallpaper paste.

3 It is best to moisten heavier papers to avoid creases- the glue is applied to the substrate and the collage paper.

4 Tissue paper should be applied with glue on the substrate only and lightly brushed over when in position.

5 Synthetic flat brushes are used for the application of glue.

Collage Placement

1 For landscapes I normally paint the sky in acrylic to just below the horizon line and in watercolour on paper.

2 I placed the paper randomly below the top horizon line either vertical or horizontal and avoiding diagonal lines trying to vary the shape of each piece and completely covering the surface on the canvas.

3 I tend to keep the stronger warmer colours to the foreground. Tissue squares are placed across areas to have a gradual change in tone.

Penwork

1 Waterproof black ink

Acrylic

1 Opaque Titanium white to define the shapes and transparent acrylic to change the colour if necessary.

2 Transparent colour glazes for the darks to allow the collage pattern to show through. Never black or Payne's grey for the shadows.

Others

1 Stencils and stamps can be used as well as alcohol pens

Sealing

1 UV sealant to prevent the colours from fading.

2 Two to three coats of varnish to finish either matt, gloss or satin. My choice is matt.

Monday, 24 August 2020

Keep on painting

Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull
Collage on 20x16 canvas board

Collage on 12x10 canvas board

Stonehaven Scotland - Ink over acrylic

Edinburgh - collage and acrylic on 20x16 inch canvas board

Friday, 6 December 2019

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.

Sunday, 24 November 2019

Sky Arts Landscape Painter of the Year 2019

Once again I enter as a Wildcard artist on Thursday 4th July 2017 which was aired as episode 5 on Sky Arts. I arrived at 6.30, parked to the east of the Sage and went to registration. I had forgotten how cold in could be at this time by the river as I had neither a coat or a jumper.

After the initial artists walk through for the cameras I took up a position on the Millennium Bridge ready to start painting. It was quite windy and several artists abandoned their location for sheltered Baltic Square. I positioned my easel under the railings to prevent it blowing away.

Ready for a 9.00 am start.

I started with watercolour wash of cobalt blue and cobalt blue greyed with light red for the sky then naples yellow for buildings and finally a deeper blue for the Tyne.

Once dry I sketched the outline of the building and quay in pencil. Then started gluing on the collage . Graph paper for the high-rise, vertical lined tissue for the quay, dress making pattern for the Tyne Bridge uprights and filling in the remainder with map tissue, squared tissue and decoupage text. This is the point where the cameras arrived as my paper was blowing away into the river. The director asked if I could do it again so I ended up with a little cameo on TV. After the collage had dried I started on the ink work and transparent acrylics.

At 12 noon the bridge tilted to allow boats to pass so we all went on to the Baltic Square. I started another collage this time cropping in to the Baltic Chambers Building. Maureen and June arrived from the Friendly Art Group from Chester le Street who were quite helpful holding the easel and picking up paper that had blown away!

Maureen's photo

After lunch it was back on the bridge to complete the painting. Added boats in white pen and tents as if it was the Sunday market. It was a mistake to have the glue in a glass bottle which landed on the floor several times and cracked and it was only the glue holding it together- plastic container next time.

Finished painting.

Finished painting in a mount

Rosie Barnes the wildcard winner chosen at 2.30 pm

Just down from me was Rosie Barnes the wildcard winner with her pencil sketch done with a graphite stick.
Enjoyable day if cold at the start and sunburnt at the end and interesting to meet other fellow artists with different styles.

Read all about this episode and others on Markingamark