Watercolour workshop with Friendly Art Group

https://clsfriendlyartgroup.wordpress.com/grasmere-farm-workshop-with-malcolm/

Lastest paintings

Acrylic on paper. Decided to crop this at an oblique angle and removed the horizon

Staithes-Acrylics with a textured base

Polperro- As above 

Caterhouse Pit Lane - Unison pastels on Pastelmat paper

Lindisfarne Castle- Mixed Media-collage with pen and acrylics

2019 - Last watercolour paintings

Watendlath Beck Cumbria

Firth of Forth from Low Granton Road Edinburgh

Loanthwaite Farm near Outgate Cumbria

Scafell View- workshop at Friendly Art Group

Second attempt

Pear Tree Cottage Staverley Cumbria

Cottage at Dhoon Beach near Kirkcudbright Scotland

Langdale View from Joe Hush workshop

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.

Chester le Street Autumn Exhibition 2019

Two week in Chester Library from 2 Nov to 16 Nov 2019

 47 pictures entered by 19 artists 

South Wall and corner 25 paintings mainly 20x16 inch

West Wall - 22 smaller paintings  

Raffle prize donated by our Chairman Peter Robbins.
Peter's work on SAA website

Public voting results from 155 votes cast.

    1 st  with 17 votes my collage painting of Edinburgh view to Carlton Hill

2 nd with 16 votes Peter Robbins- Warkworth Castle in acrylics

 3 rd with 10 votes David Armstrong - Chester le Street Bowls in acrylics

David is one of our newest members and his work can be viewed on Instagram

Overall voting

25 - Peter Robbins from 2 paintings

24 - Malcolm Coils from 2 paintings

19 - Audrey Fryer with her wonderful 3 pastel pencil drawings.

Audrey's pastel

Excellent exhibition with a variety of mediums.

Others members on the web but not Facebook;-

Maria Harland on Leisure Painter

George Levitt on Artfinder

Group photos earlier this year

Article in Leisure Painter about our club

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

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