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

Scarborough holiday

Sketches and paintings from Scarborough while staying at Manor Court, the first week in October 2022 Friday Day 1 Walk around Robin Hoods Bay in the rain.

Steps on Cliffe Street Robin Hoods Bay

The rest of the week walking from the flat or driving up to Castlegate and then into the South Bay Area.

Caslebank Scarborough

Scalby Mill North Bay Scarborough

Scarborough Arms

 Collage painted at home on 20x16 inch canvas board

View to Scarborough Harbour from Burr Bank

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.

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

Week stay in Dalehouse near Staithes North Yorkshire

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

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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.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv4qJboF2WZ/

This is a link to her website

 http://www.marianhill.co.uk/

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.

Notebook sketches

Golf Hotel Fife and Auchmithie in Scotland drawn from Google Earth.

High Hallgarth house in Little Langdale Cumbria

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Durham Cathedral from the Racecourse

Hartsop Cottage and Barass Square Staithes North Yorkshire

Grasmore from Rannerdale Knots Cumbria

Back of Dove Cottage Grasmere Cumbria

Peinchorran Loch Sligachan from Google Earth

Port Erroll Cruden Bay Scotland

Entered this sketch page in ' paint the seaside ' competition on the Painters Online website and was selected as the winner. The prize was a set of watercolour pencil and graphite pencils - both I don't use so I'll give them to the grandchildren.