Here’s what I decided to do with my Birkrigg Common sketch that I posted yesterday (with the Hoad Lighthouse above Ulverston in the background). I did a few of these linear sketches on my recent holiday and I’m working into this one with some watercolour washes. I like blending watercolours directly onto the paper (Khadi). Plenty more toContinue reading “Taking The Line Forward: 1”
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Starting With Line: 6
Decisions! Decisions! Here’s the other half of my Birkrigg Common sketch that I posted yesterday. This clearly shows the Hoad Lighthouse, that towers above Ulverston, whose name invokes a “wolf warrior”. I did a few of these linear sketches on my recent holiday and now I have to decide what to do with them. ContinueContinue reading “Starting With Line: 6”
Starting With Line: 5
It was a lovely warm and sunny day on Birkrigg Common in the Lake District earlier this month and I sat and I scribbled for a while. I used a Faber Castell Pitt pen into my Khadi Landscape sketchbook. On the upper right of the drawing is the Hoad Lighthouse, a famous landmark around theseContinue reading “Starting With Line: 5”
The Imaginary Landscape.
I taught a Community Arts class on Friday, at GS Artists, part of the 9to90 Creative Community programme. The topic was painting an imaginary landscape in acrylics, onto canvas board, in 2 hours. I referred to David Hockney’s landscapes for inspiration. The compositions he uses can be fairly simple, the colours intense, and the useContinue reading “The Imaginary Landscape.”
Starting With Line: 4
This is the “other” side of the drawing I posted yesterday, from my Landscape Khadi sketchbook. I like drawing right across the double page to get a panoramic view. I’ll be using watercolours on this – when I find the time! This is somewhere in the Lake District, up a mountain, I can’t be moreContinue reading “Starting With Line: 4”
Starting With Line: 3
Here’s another line drawing I did en plein air in the Lake District recently. Husb and I went up for a few days to see family and get out and do some walking and sketching. This is somewhere on the top of the Lake District, I’ve no idea where! Just liked the look of itContinue reading “Starting With Line: 3”
Starting With Line: 2
Here’s the second part of my line drawing of the Giant’s Grave standing stones at Kirkstanton in Cumbria, done in the field en plein air into my Khadi landscape sketchbook. I like to sketch across the double page as it gives me a panoramic view, which is interesting to draw. When I’ve got a bit of time,Continue reading “Starting With Line: 2”
Starting With Line: 1
I did a series of pen line sketches while Husb and I were away in Yorkshire and Cumbria recently. They were fairly quick to do and I intend on working into them with ink or watercolour washes over the next week. Here’s one at the beginning of it’s artistic journey. It’s the Giant’s Grave standingContinue reading “Starting With Line: 1”
From The Hide…
Husb and I had a few days away in the north of England, splitting out visit between West Yorkshire and Cumbria. I managed to so some sketching as well as some fairly strenuous walking, historic sight-seeing and visits to friends and relatives. This is a sketch I made in pen (Faber Castell Pitt) and InktenseContinue reading “From The Hide…”
Holiday Sketching
Spent a few days in Cumbria this week with very intermittent Internet access, which has been really nice, relaxing. The weather was lovely so I went walking and sketching with my Khadi landscape sketchbook, Inktense blocks and reservoir brush. Here’s a view from Birkrigg Common.
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