Alnmouth Holiday Nov 2022

 

Down Chapel Lane Alnmouth

Back of the Red Lion Inn

End of Crows Nest Lane looking towards Coquet Island 

Riverside Drive

Sun Inn on Northumberland Street

Sketching in Durham

Two sketches from the same bench in the market place.

Then I moved on to then riverside below Gates Shopping Centre and two sketches from the same seat.

Then downstream opposite the old ice rink which they are turning into more ugly riverside

development.

Elvet Bridge painting form Browns Boatyard

Chester le Street Arts Wednesday 22 October 2014.

Prepared canvas board with gesso, added blue strips of tissue and added some grey colour randomly to the canvas. I had no idea of which way up or what picture of the four views I had of Elvet bridge I was going to paint.

I settled on the view from Browns boatyard looking across to the Swan and Cygnets pub with the Old Town Hall in the distance together with the church spire where my daughter Lesley was married.
The initial drawing was done with a rectangular block of graphite using the long side edges for the straight lines. Blocked in with blue acrylic ink using small piece of mount board and the texture added using a black ink pad straight on to the canvas.

Next day added some colour to the Old Town Hall the far bank of the River Wear and the stonework on the bridge with tissue paper and brown ink pad. Subdued the blue tissue on the pub and added the pier numbers.

Ready to seal and varnish for exhibition on Saturday 25th October at Chester le Street Library.

Only one picture left to paint and time is running out!

Wednesday 28 August 2014 CLS Arts Society

Watercolour from previous week. Another attempt at Cullercoats on 200 lb Bockingford paper size 15 x 11 ins.

 Acrylic on 20 x 16 canvas board of Highlight and Wooden Dolly pub in North Shields

Found my way again

20 x 16 canvas Elvet Bridge in Durham City

Started with random lines with blocks of burnt sienna and yellow ink.

Image added not following drawn lines with black waterproof pen .

Texture added with a small roller with flat elastic bands covered in burnt sienna ink to give random marks in the foreground, the houses and the tree behind the building.

Ink added with my finger under the arches and soften by pulling down.

Some of the lines reinforced with a thicker black pen.

Happy with the result and enjoyed painting it but I think it needs some transparent coloured washes which will probably ruin it but its worth a try.

Deerness Art Group Sunday 11 May 2014

Demonstration and workshop of Mixed Media by Tony Montague  using Alcohol coloured pens on tracing paper and plastic drawing film.

Random lines of red, blue and yellow draw on tracing paper then methylated spirits is dropped on to the paper which pushes back the colour. A defuser can be used to produce a fine spray of meths to cause a mottled effect.

Two of his paintings using this method.

Another method he demonstrated was to paint thin tissue paper with watercolour paint and use this as collage material.

This is Norma making an excellent collage using this method.

I tried using the alcohol pens on canvas board but after the initial  ink work separated with the meths

all the texture soaked into the canvas. I then using black sharpie to define the design and then some tube acrylics were added.

Added clear tissue to the background to try and give a sense of depth.

North Shields Fish Quay 20 x 16 inches on canvas board.

Really good session and Tony is an excellent demonstrator.

http://www.bayattic.com/tony-montague-art-prints-b108