We stayed at a delightful cottage at Dalehouse Farm in the Post Box Cottage run by
Gerard and Elaine Welford.
Link:- Dalehousefarmcottages
Weeks drawings on canvas boards
Monday morning was a frosty start. Drove to Cowbar car park and walked down the bank to the North Side and sketched looking across Staithes Beck from a stone seat outside the first cottage over the bridge. Passed by several surfers running to catch the tide
.
Tuesday afternoon Dalehouse Farm sketched from the far side of the beck with Post Box Cottage on the right hand side. The beck is called Newton Moor according to the farmer - it is difficult to figure out its name from OS maps, new and old. Several artists refer to the beck at Staithes as being Roxby Beck but the OS maps clearly called it Staithes Beck after this stream joins the Roxby Beck just to left of the photo.
An aqueduct once crossed the stream here as part of the mill race that supplied the former corn mill behind the Fox and Hounds pub.
Both drawn on 20x16 canvas boards with black pen, Sharpie and black biro.
Friday morning walk into Staithes and sketched the view in Seaton Garth near the second slipway.
After lunch at the Royal George of fish and chips for Pat and crab sandwich for me we met collage artist Marian Hill who had just finished a pencil sketch looking across the beck into the sun.
This is a link to her website
It was too cool near the sea so we sat in the lea of the bridge on the first bench. I closed the gap in the bridge and brought in Cowbar Nab at the left.
Both on 10x12 inch canvas boards with random collage of magazine text, tissue and dress making patterns previously prepared in the cottage keeping the weight to the bottom. Same pens as previous.
Some watercolour- White Knight and white acrylic added in the cottage.
