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

Holiday in Spittal near Berwick upon Tweed

 No painting outside - too cold. Painted after the holiday.

View from the town walls

Palace Green

The Avenue as viewed from the town walls.

Sally Port 

58 Church Street with house numbers a, b, c, etc

A passageway to Palace Green

Holiday in Appleby last year

 Outdoor painting and sketching

Appleby from the St. Lawrence Bridge

Drawn and painted in the cottage because of Covid access on the bridge

Drawn and painted from a seat on the River Eden bank looking across the cafe on the other end of the St. Lawrence Bridge

Morning sketch across the River Eden

Appleby Market Place

Drawn and painted from a seat in the marketplace when visible from cars parked on the double yellow lines!!




Other sketches and painting that were drawn later

Owl Cottage on Boroughgate

Screen Drawing with Lanchester Monday Art Group

Busk House Little Langdale

Busk House Little Langdale

Low Tilberthwaite near Coniston

Great Langdale

Deepdale in the Ullswater valley near Brothers Water

Notes on my collage technique

 

250 lb Bockingford paper

Substrate

1 Canvas board

2 Stretched canvas

3 Heavyweight paper 200lb and above

Found papers for collage 

1 Text from magazines

2 Coloured tissue paper - staining and non-staining

3 Dressmaking patterns

4 Wrapping tissue paper

5 Coloured patterned paper

6 Gelli pad designs on paper and strong tissue paper

7 Holiday and promotional brochures, postage stamps, maps, inside patterns in envelopes etc 

Glue

1 Acrylic Matt Medium - peels away easily from the fingers when dry- my favourite

2 Others Mod Podge, PVA or wallpaper paste.

3 It is best to moisten heavier papers to avoid creases- the glue is applied to the substrate and the collage paper.

4 Tissue paper should be applied with glue on the substrate only and lightly brushed over when in position. 

5 Synthetic flat brushes are used for the application of glue.

Collage Placement

1 For landscapes I normally paint the sky in acrylic to just below the horizon line and in watercolour on paper.

2 I placed the paper randomly below the top horizon line either vertical or horizontal and avoiding diagonal lines trying to vary the shape of each piece and completely covering the surface on the canvas.

3 I tend to keep the stronger warmer colours to the foreground. Tissue squares are placed across areas to have a gradual change in tone.

Penwork

1 Waterproof black ink

Acrylic 

1 Opaque Titanium white to define the shapes and transparent acrylic to change the colour if necessary.

2 Transparent colour glazes for the darks to allow the collage pattern to show through. Never black or Payne's grey for the shadows.

Others

1 Stencils and stamps can be used as well as alcohol pens

Sealing

1 UV sealant to prevent the colours from fading.

2 Two to three coats of varnish to finish either matt, gloss or satin. My choice is matt.

 

Outdoor Sketching at Dunbar and finished painting

 

Sketch from over the drawbridge on my stool with my back to the rock outcrop using a black pen on a 20x16 inch canvas board. Inset shows the view. It was getting cold so I returned to the cottage.

Some coloured tissue added to the buildings and dressmaking patterns to the harbour area.

Returned later in the day to photograph the returning fishing boats. Our cottage was just to the left of the orange buoy up the steps.

The finished painting by adding the boats, lobster pots and just indicate some detail along the quayside.