Category: Art
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Practising watercolour flowers
I saw a new technique for painting flowers (and leaves) in watercolour on Instagram recently and thought I’d give it a go. Some came out better than others, but I had a LOT of fun trying! I can’t wait to try it on other subjects…
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A new exhibition
So on 1st December I took a very deep breath and applied to enter the Cumbria Local Arts exhibition for the first time ever – and heard 2 days later that I’d been accepted!! The event happens in Grasmere in April next year and you can bet I’ll be posting more details nearer the time……
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Cartmel Priory gatehouse #2
And this is the other side of the medieval priory gatehouse in Cartmel, Cumbria. My hand was shaking a bit when I was drawing this yesterday (long-term wrist injury, sigh) so it’s a bit… scratchier than I’d have liked. But you start to get a sense of just how massive it is – and I…
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New pen drawing
I messed around with a fineliner pen again last night while watching the snooker and this is the result. It’s the wonderful medieval priory gatehouse in Cartmel which I’ve been itching to draw for a while. Some of the perspectives were quite complex but I’m pleased with the way it came out…
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A snowy scene
There was another fun and informative session on watercolours at Windermere Art Society last night. This one focussed on using a limited palette, blending and semi-abstract techniques to make quick paintings of snow. I’m quite proud of the one I did, especially the barbed wire fence. 😁 (I also used a rigger brush for the…
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Rocky!
There was a workshop on painting rocks in watercolour at last night’s Windermere Art Society meeting – very useful for Lake District landscapes!! This is my first attempt…
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Hide and sheep!
I’m still experimenting with drawing from scratch in fineliner pen/ink and it’s much better than I expected. This is a little scene of three Herdwick sheep trying to convince everyone they were hidden behind a tree and a fence post, which I snapped near Hawkshead earlier this year. I’m thinking of calling it Hide and…
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Pen and ink and cormorants
Wow who knew a fineliner pen could give results like this?! I never dared use one before the last art society workshop because you can’t erase mistakes, but that gave me confidence and I’ll definitely be trying more in future. This is one of the wonderful cormorant statues on Morecambe prom, which I took a…
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Pen and ink
I had loads of fun at Windermere Art Society last night learning ink, pen and chalk techniques from local artist Stuart Grey. Most of this little picture (of the gateway at Sedbergh church in Cumbria) was done with liquid ink and a sponge with details in fineliner pen and good old fashioned white chalk. I’m…
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Art on display
I’ve been forgetting to mention that two of my pictures (below) are on display (and *cough* for sale) in the Windermere Room at the Ladyholme Centre in Windermere. There are also artworks by other members of my monthly pastels group available and I’m genuinely blown away to have my art featured in such good company.…
fiona glass art 