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

Acrylics on paper

Red, yellow and blue random strokes then textured with cling film.Then blocks of colour added with roller and some with a brush.

Design added with added transparent and opaque washes. Transparent white and yellow added.

Newcastle view from Hilton Hotel Gateshead.

Paper sealed with acrylic medium gel.Similar texture and colours with some newsprint for collage then using acrylic to paint on a greaseproof sheet which split the colour into small dots- this was stamped onto the painting. Design added ( composite view) and then positive and negative shapes to define the structure. Also some textured roller work added at the bottom with white added do define the river..

Durham

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

Chester-le-Street Arts Society Wed 23/07/2014

Added acrylics glazes to weaken the sky and emphasis the buildings.

Wednesday 17 July 2014 Chester-le-Street Arts Society

Random coloured tissue from Hobbycraft glued to canvas board with PVA glue

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Image drawn with fine waterproof pen then heavier lines added with a black Sharpie.

Extra tissue used to define the structure and sealed with acrylic matt medium.

Does it need acrylic glazes to give it more depth?

20 x 16 inch canvas board from Jacksons at £2.60 each when buying 10..

Painters on line article

http://www.painters-online.co.uk/Information/Gallery-newsletter-May14


All about the North Shields painting.

Wednesday 28 May Chester-le-Street art Society

8 members present.
Started glazing two paintings.

Started small painting to practice glazing in acrylics on a 12 x 10 in canvas board previously covered in yellow and orange and textured with cling film. Some roller work was applied to certain area and a loose outline of a cottage add. Glazing was then added to give more depth.

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

Tuesday night 29 April 2014

 Line drawing over under wash and some colour added with coloured Sharpies.

Tube acrylics added to background trees, swing bridge tower and the sky.

Looks all right from a distance but awful close in.

Wednesday night Art Club at Chester-le-St

Acrylic inks yellow, blue, burnt sienna and black with some tube white. Painted with small pieces of mount card dragging the ink across the canvas and glazing with a flat brush. 20x16 stretched canvas. The scene is on the River Tyne showing the High and Low Lights which were originally used to navigate into the harbour.

Reference photo- I have moved the towers closer together. added another boat and changed the format.

Completed painting of Whitley Bay -added gesso to the foreground and covered with coloured tissue paper, reworked the sky to eliminate the hard edges and added clear tissue to the background.

Wed 28/11 started picture of Spanish City at Whitley Bay Northumberland based on this sketch in my hardback book No. 45.

In the sketch I have moved the two churches closer to the dome, the photo was taken from St. Mary's Lighthouse.
On a 20 x 16 inch canvas I stuck random torn pieces of tissue paper with colours on the warm side all over the canvas and added some acrylic colour to the buildings.

Thursday added some line work with black and coloured Sharpies - photo to follow.