Tag: Art
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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.…
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Title suggestions please!
My latest piece is now finished and framed. I’m struggling to think of a good title for it though. Maybe something about sunshine? Anyone got any bright ideas? The flower is a rudbeckia.
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First sale!
Absolutely delighted (aka running around the house shrieking) to learn that this picture sold at the Windermere Art Society exhibition yesterday! Called ‘Ladies Who Munch’, it’s a charcoal drawing of two Herdwick sheep I photographed in a field near Keswick in the Lake District a few years ago. This is my first ever “proper” art…
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A little flower picture
This is the result of the latest session of my monthly pastels group – although this time I cheated and used coloured pencils! I’m pleased with it so far but am already trying to add more colour to the flower (rudbeckia from our back garden) to bring the vibrancy up…
fiona glass art 