ARTFINDER: Blanchland village by Malcolm Coils - Original painting of village on the Durham Nort...

ARTFINDER: Blanchland village by Malcolm Coils - Original painting of village on the Durham Nort...

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Blanchland paintings

Completed two paintings of Blanchland in watercolour on 200 lb Bockingford paper which were lying around unfinished after a query on the internet about a painting of the village.

Polperro painting

Black lines and watercolour started Wednesday at CAS and completed this morning and uploaded to Artfinder.

Deerness Art Group Sunday 9 November 2014

Dave Barden tutor again, he was here last November, and once  again encouraged our members to work from personal memories to produce a painting. He brought along two examples of his work both based around his love of music.

My project started by drawing using a black marker a flat view of Staithes bank .

Working on 200 lb Bockingford paper (actually the back of an old failed watercolour.) using coloured tissue paper aligned to the top of the roofs with a random bottom edge. Newsprint was added to some the walls. Watercolour was added to the base and textured using cling film.

Similar process used in the second painting but this time drawn in perspective.

I later sealed the paintings with acrylic medium and and over painted with tube acrylics to complete the paintings. 

 I used Google's Picasa 3 to create the mounts and frames.

Chester le Street Autumn Exhibition 2014

The exhibition started Sat 25/10/2014 in the library in Chester le Street.

Nice entries from our new member Gillian Burrell.

My entries

Seaham Beach and Elvet Bridge from Browns boathouse

Old Elvet Bridge and Fairfield

Painting of Old Elvet Bridge painted on Friday afternoon as the original entry I had put into Shepherds Dene Exhibition. Collage and acrylic on 20 x 16 inch canvas board.

Elvet Bridge painting form Browns Boatyard

Chester le Street Arts Wednesday 22 October 2014.

Prepared canvas board with gesso, added blue strips of tissue and added some grey colour randomly to the canvas. I had no idea of which way up or what picture of the four views I had of Elvet bridge I was going to paint.

I settled on the view from Browns boatyard looking across to the Swan and Cygnets pub with the Old Town Hall in the distance together with the church spire where my daughter Lesley was married.
The initial drawing was done with a rectangular block of graphite using the long side edges for the straight lines. Blocked in with blue acrylic ink using small piece of mount board and the texture added using a black ink pad straight on to the canvas.

Next day added some colour to the Old Town Hall the far bank of the River Wear and the stonework on the bridge with tissue paper and brown ink pad. Subdued the blue tissue on the pub and added the pier numbers.

Ready to seal and varnish for exhibition on Saturday 25th October at Chester le Street Library.

Only one picture left to paint and time is running out!