May Paintings

Staithes from the old viaduct abutment on the Cowbar side- Collage on 20x16 in canvas board.

Looking down on Gun Gutter Lane Staithes- 12x10in collage on canvas board.

Four collages on 10x12 in canvas boards trying to avoid horizontal and vertical line.

1 Dylan -early years

2 Nude

3 Girl in a hat

4 Bantu girl

Also several watercolours on 1/4 imperial Bockingford 200 lb paper.

Old Durham from a walk from Sherburn village

Painting with Hazel- High Birk Howe Farm in Little Langdale. Started the painting without a sketch so I had to move the building further apart.

Baxter's Wood and the River Browney near Durham City

Shell painting with Tricia McLaughlin at the Monday Art Group at Lanchester. Decided to add a beach scene to the composition. The Blast Beach looking across to Nose's Point and Seaham Harbour.

Stuck with what to paint at the Friendly Art Group so I asked one of the ladies for a number from 1 to 50 (sketch books) and a number from 1 to 65 (page numbers). 6 and 35 turned out to be Townend House in Troutbeck in Cumbria which I had drawn in July 97.

Second week with  Tricia McLaughlin was a seascape with a wet in wet sky.

My subject was Spital Point near Newbiggin-by-the-sea in Northumberland

Quink ink drawn with a kebab stick and washed with water to make the ink run. Initial wash was textured with cling film along the bottom and also used on the trees lifting slightly during drying. White Night Russian paints were used.

Subjects for seascapes

Blast Beach Seaham

Pincushion Rocks Ryhope

Easington beach

Crimdon Beach

Whitburn Rocks

Chemical Beach Seaham Harbour

Seaham Hall Beach

Blast Beach Seaham

Blast Beach Seaham

Groynes at Seaham Hall Beach

Chester le Street Spring Exhibition April 2019 for two weeks

This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the society and we still have two founder members. Your treasurer Jan produced a cube showing past photographs and examples of members work.

South wall 1

South wall 2

Corner

West wall 1

West wall 2

Picture cube

The results of the visitors votes based on overall number per artist were:-

First - Jan Graham

Second - Malcolm Coils

Third - Peter Robbins

Fourth - Sylvia Berry -one of our newest members 

Winning Paintings by Jan

Horse Whisperer -pencil

 Waiting - Pastel Pencil

Our next meeting was a celebration of fifty years with current and past members attending

Members old and new

Our Chairman in fine voice entertaining us with two of  his songs.

Chairman Peter Robbins presents awards to our founding members Beth Wyer and George Levitt.

Lanchester collage of Middle Eastern City workshop

Collage using a 12x12 inch variegated sheet from the Works with magazine offcuts.

For the Cairo painting the pyramids where formed using a cut stencil and Distress ink from Ranger.

The main domes and minarets where placed in their approximate positions and remaining spaces filled with random offcuts maintaining verticals and horizontals. The sky remained the colour of the substrate.

Black lines using Uniball waterproof for the thin lines and Sharpie for the broader lines where used to indicated windows, doors, smaller domes, battlements and roofs.

Transparent burnt sienna was used to indicate the shallow behind the building with a blue glace added when dry to deepen the colour.

Cairo

My efforts

Jerusalem

Some of the members work after two sessions -still line work and shading to do

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.

February Paintings

Staithes Beck mixed media

Mixed media collage, pen and acrylics showing elements of Eilean Donan Castle on 20x16 canvas board.

Staithes Slipway using the same media.

Polin Cottage in Scotland - watercolour with black ink in the foreground for texture

High Wray village in Cumbria - charcoal on watercolour paper

John Dory- negative painting in acrylics with some stamping

Another in the Middle East Skyline series - Collage and black pen on mount board.