Artistic – Graeme Skinner https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress Artist, designer and photographer Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:25:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-site-icon-150x150.png Artistic – Graeme Skinner https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress 32 32 Fjall https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/08/fjall/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/08/fjall/#respond Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:25:59 +0000 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=5182 A Quick(ish) watercolour in an attempt to switch my brain off for a while, I picked a random Lake District reference photo and splattered some paint 😉

Lakeland, A4 Watercolour
]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/08/fjall/feed/ 0 Meg https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/06/meg/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/06/meg/#respond Sun, 08 Jun 2025 10:58:08 +0000 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=5129 Decided to try a watercolour landscape as it felt like too long since I’d painted something 😉 So I used one of my recent photos from my wander around Long Meg Stone Circle.

Long Meg, A3, Watercolour
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*Just working out what is working and what doesn’t 😉

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Castlerigg Stone Circle, Oil, 20×16 inch
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Cockpit Stone Circle, Watercolour 15.5″ x 11.5″
]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/02/cockpit/feed/ 0 A Daughter of Meg https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/02/a-daughter-of-meg/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/02/a-daughter-of-meg/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:41:32 +0000 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=5014 Returning to my (almost) obsession with painting/drawing/photographing standing stones, here’s one of Long Megs offspring….

One of the daughters, A3, Charcoal
]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/02/a-daughter-of-meg/feed/ 0 Down to the stones https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/02/down-to-the-stones-2/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/02/down-to-the-stones-2/#respond Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:21:19 +0000 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=5000 When we visited Long Meg last year and took a few photos (here), I intended to use a few of them as references for paintings, it took a while longer than anticipated to start but that’s the way things go 😉 anyway, this one may be finished. Or at least, it’s finished for now…

Long Meg, 20″x16″
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