September Painting

Llanddwyn Pilots Cottages Anglesey- Watercolour

Staithes Mount Pleasant - collage and acrylic on 20x16 canvas board 

Staithes down from Mount Pleasant - Acrylic 12x10 inch canvas board.

Bullslaughter Beach South Wales- Watercolour

Durham from Crook Hall - watercolour

Lendal Bridge York - Acrylic and pen

Abstracted trees- watercolor

African Sunset painting along with Sarah Hill Durham artist demonstrating at the Friendly Art Group

Giraffes added the next day.

Paintings from random washes

Two 1/2 imperial sheets of SAA practise paper covered

in loose washes then cut in two and then painting subjects to fit.

                                    Snowdonia                                                                                                                                        High soaring birds

 Robin Hoods Bay New Road

Looking down on Rodin Hoods Bay

Both line and wash.

Still catching up- Tissue on black Acrylic and watercolours

Fishing village with newsprint and coloured tissue paper.

Tissue on canvas board 20 x 16 inches with the actual print of the sketch stuck on the board. Acrylic paint used to blend the tissue. Mount and frame from Picasa software free from Google.

Watercolour paintings

Gesso added to the foreground below painting.

 Bamburgh Castle from Lonsdale Hill.

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.Watercolour project at Lanchester

Long Crag - North of Rothbury Northumberland.

Cricceith North Wales

Finished off old watercolour demos

Busk House Little Langdale

Mousehole Cornwall

Keldas Patterdale Cumbria

Re worked watercolours

Original watercolour of the Lower Ogwen Valley in North Wales

Blue wash added to background, stronger tone added to the foreground

and the left hand tree softened with wet cotton wool just pressed on the the paper to weaken the tone.

Original watercolour of  Tal y Lyn Ogwen Farm at the head of the lake from from a sketch done on our holiday in LLanberis.

Extra tone added to background mountains and the pine trees . Re-worked the trees around the farm and added an overall wash to the stone walls and the foreground grass.

Acrylic on 12 x 10 board with textured gesso using bubble wrap and credit card.

Overall wash of cadmium yellow and red then phthalo blue and green added to base.

Sky add - building blocked out at the top  and sided with titanium white with the bottom being faded out. Trees added with ultramarine blue and burnt sienna. Chimneys added in white and sky colour used for the roof.

Some black pen work added to house and the suggestion of a gate

Started watercolour of Church Street in Whitby with an overall wash from the sky to the bottom using a light wash of blue for whites in shadow and the sun sit sides with water to stop differential drying which will buckle the paper even at 200 lb weight- I don't like using masking fluid.

The buildings were added using a variegated wash with a rigger. 

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.

Wednesday Art Club

Started painting of Pembrokeshire Farm in acrylic inks on 20 x 16 ins canvas.

From the original sketch I decided to removed the near farmhouse and lower the view point and abstracted the foreground.

More work with tube acrylics- worked on the sky and background hills, added white to distance farm houses, extended the barn and reworked the foreground.

Previous watercolour painting and sketch.

Reference photo of the farms below Carn Llidi in Pembrokeshire near to St. Davids