Original art by Fiona Glass
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An old stone circle
Here’s a teeny tiny sketch of the Bronze Age stone circle at Birkrigg, near Ulverston, from our walk at the weekend. It was hard to draw the foreground as in between the stones is just short, sheep-cropped grass, but maybe I could use some watercolours if I do another version. You’ll see from my journal…
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And the colour version…!
I tried using watercolours on the farm buildings sketch I posted the other day. I really wanted to highlight the vivid pink of the hydrangeas on the wall – it’s not there yet but I can always fiddle with it some more once it’s fully dry…
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Old farm buildings in the sun
We had a super walk over Birkrigg Common near Ulverston this morning – it’s a mixture of moorland and limestone pavement with a stone circle and amazing views of Morecambe Bay and the Lakeland fells. Coming back, we got slightly lost in a maze of narrow lanes and I fell in love with these gorgeous…
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Nervous of watercolours…
I was too nervous to just plunge in and try watercolours on my latest pen and ink drawing. So, wimp that I am, I scanned it, printed it out on ordinary computer paper, and used the watercolours on that. And… I’m surprised… in a good way, because it’s come out looking much better than I…
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Derwentwater in pastels
I’ve been messing about with my new oil pastels again, this time with a view across Derwentwater. I’m still learning how they work but am pleased with how it turned out, especially the light on the fellside. I’ll keep practising!
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Exhibition closed
The Windermere Art Society exhibition is now closed for this year. A huge thank you to everyone who visited, chatted, or voted for their favourite picture – and an even bigger shout-out to the folks who bought some of my work. Now comes the hard work of dismantling everything and collecting any unsold work. I’m…
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Distant hills…
Does anyone else remember that old piece of music? It was the B side for Eye Level, way back in the days when music still came on little round bits of vinyl. I’m showing my age. Anyway, moving on… I had coffee with a friend at the Mission cafe in Windermere this morning, and couldn’t…
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Practising with oil pastels
The TG Jones/WH Smith branch in Windermere is closing down and has some good bargains on art materials. I treated myself to a box of oil pastels, which I’ve been itching to try for a while, and messed around seeing what I could do with them. They’re a lot more like wax crayons than I…
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Sold: Misty charcoal mountains
I’m absolutely delighted that These Mist-Covered Mountains, my charcoal drawing of mist swirling over Cat Bells at Derwentwater, sold yesterday at the Windermere Art Society exhibition. Talk about blink and you miss it – I’d only just finished posting about it on here! The event is on for another week and there’s still plenty of…
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Decisions, decisions…
This is a new pen and ink sketch of the launches on Derwentwater, moored up at the Keswick jetties. I planned on doing a pen and watercolour wash type thing for this but am now wavering because a. I can’t decide whether to opt for naturalistic colours or something a bit more abstract and b.…
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