Tag: Kendal
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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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Old Kendal bridge
The other day we had coffee outside the Waterside Cafe on the banks of the River Kent in Kendal. They were busy and the drinks took a while to come, so I whipped out my sketchbook and drew the view of Miller Bridge. It’s a lovely old structure which dates from 1818 and still carries…
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Green Door Artists
I’m absolutely delighted to announce that I’ve been accepted as a member of Green Door Artists’ collective / general support group, based in Kendal. It’s been a dream for the year and a half that I’ve been doing art, so you can imagine how excited I am! I’m really looking forward to getting to know…
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Rolling along…
There was supposed to be another outdoor art session for members of Windermere Art Society in Kendal yesterday. I really wanted to go because it was based in the grounds of Abbot Hall, a very beautiful Grade I Listed manor house on the banks of the River Kent, which would have been wonderful to sketch.…
fiona glass art 