Tag: Lake District art
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A lake shore view
Kirkstone Pass in the Lake District, which was closed for ages while they fixed a huge landslip, is open again. This means we can get to Ullswater without tricky diversions or a massive detour, so yesterday afternoon we jumped in the car and headed to Glenridding. The skies were overcast for the first time in…
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Sketching by Windermere
The forecast yesterday afternoon was for thunderstorms – absolutely typical as Windermere Art Society had an outdoor art session arranged. It didn’t look too threatening, though, so a handful of us went for it and had a smashing time. After one brief shower it cleared up and was warm and sunny enough to give me…
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Sketching in public (gasp)
We strolled down to Windermere Jetty museum yesterday morning and treated ourselves to a coffee, sitting outside with the usual stunning views of the lake. I’m getting braver at sketching in public, so took a sketchpad and pen and plucked up courage to draw the view of the mountains at the head of the lake.…
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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…
fiona glass art 