My collage workshop at Chester-le-Street Tuesday Group.

Two projects :- Town scene and Vases

Random collage strips on a sheet of mount board and a quarter sheet of 200 lb Bockingford using tissue, newsprint and wrapping paper.

My paintings

Staithes

Vases shapes from stencil then negative flat opaque painting for the background and transparent darks for the table and some tinting on the vases.

Some of the work in progress.

Catch up time

Three Workshops at Monday Art Group Lanchester

Painting stones with Angela Beattie

My rock painting

Angela's rocks

Trying the dot needle with little success

Brusho with Gavin Mayhew over two weeks

Three painting using brusho. First one sprinkling the brusho onto wet paper to simulate flowers then a Lake District scene added to the top in watercolour.

Troutbeck Cumbria

Second painting on clear gesso with the brusho blended on the paper using two colours.

White cottages added with white gouache and the detail added in watercolour

Far Sawrey Cumbria

Final painting- again blending the brusho on the paper then when dry an Italian landscape added and the sky in black acrylic. The foreground was crumpled tissue paper with brown ink brushed on to enhance the edges of the tissue.

Bagnoregio Italy

Gestural Drawing with Renira Barnes

Drawing in mixed media started looking at the object then drawing, then not looking at the paper and drawing then I quickly lost interest.

New collage work

Port Isaac Cornwall 

Beach steps

Fish Market

DURHAM 

Elvet Bridge from Bishop Bishops started out as a female figure

 but did not work out then covered in gesso and started again.

Still needs people on the bridge to finish and second arch on bridge.

Crook Hall painting in the gardens with Deerness Art Group

Walked into Durham and started at 10 am with Paoi, Margaret and Deryck in the Georgian walled garden. First an outline sketch in biro in my new notebook. Weather overcast with just a few spots of rain.

Then rough outline on 1/4 imperial Bockingford not paper then pen work on the building.

Watercolour washes to complete the mornings work. Finished at 12.20.

 Deryck using acrylics on canvas.

Paoi working on an interesting collage using a Smyths catalogue from the toy shop.

Margaret doing her usual work with foliage using masking fluid - Gone for lunch.

Left the others to finish their work and walked home after an abortive attempt to catch the bus. The 64 service in Durham just gets worse and worse.

Staithes Collage

Canvas covered with collage using dressing making patterns, tissue pattern paper and newsprint from an artist magazine.

-sketch added with black pen and sharpie

-painted sky and white buildings

Finished painting

Society of All Artist (SAA) Artist of the Year 2018

My painting of Amble Harbour in Northumberland at the mouth of the River Coquet has been selected for the final 37 in this year competition.

This is the link for voting:-

https://www.saa.co.uk/info/artist-of-the-year-members-vote/

Townhead Troutbeck

Two paintings of Thornthwaite Farm Townhead Troutbeck

Finished paintings

Reference material. 

Sketches

Listed Grade 2 Building description