cumbria – Graeme Skinner

Local Legends

14 February 202119 February 2021 Graeme Skinner

The theme of the month for February over on John Howe’s website is ‘Just Next Door‘… What myths, legends and folktales do you have in your neighbourhood or region? This month’s theme is the marvellous and the fantastic that lives next door, so to speak: local legends, myths that have taken root not far from your door, folk characters that haunt the local woodlands, streams or hills. Well, there are quite a few local myths and legends that came to mind and I could not pick just one. Time being…

Sourmilk Gill

3 January 20213 January 2021 Graeme Skinner

I have a large list of things to illustrate, a large list of landscapes to paint, another large list of digital projects to work on, oh, and there’s some glass work to fit in as well. However, the other day looking at my to-do projects didn’t inspire me so I asked Julie what I should work on next, she suggested Sourmilk Gill which is an impressive sight next to Buttermere in the Lake District. I was about to tape down some watercolour board for a painting when I changed my…

Great Dun Fell

13 December 202013 December 2020 Graeme Skinner

I had a scrap of illustration board lying around so I decided to practice a landscape in watercolour, well, I’ve been painting quite a few night scenes lately something in daylight was in order 😉 . I’ve never tried one of Great Dun Fell before so I picked that as a subject. It’s one I need to revisit soon.

Stars over Castlerigg

16 November 2020 Graeme Skinner

I decided to paint a Castlerigg Stone Circle night scene, to make it a bit more interesting I decided to paint a fairly accurate night sky, so I worked out how the sky would have looked the from the day we got married and painted that 😉

Pause

13 June 2020 Graeme Skinner

Driving to work the other night I had a couple of minutes to spare before I needed to be there so had a few minutes wander for some fresh air. Luckily there had been a little rain so there was some water falling which drew my attention. I only had my phone with me but it blurs the water quite nicely.