crummock – Graeme Skinner

Crummock

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 18:06:18 +0000

Decided to play with a carbon pencil on paper for a change, so a quick doodle of Crummock was the result

Crummock – B&W carbon pencil on paper

…and in reflection

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 13:34:07 +0000

It feels like a while since I’ve managed to paint anything so I decided that I should practice a little, I wasn’t wanting to paint anything overly complicated on in depth but just wanted to get some paint down and break a little creative mind block The easiest solution I came up with was to gather a load of reference images together and pick one at random then have a go at it. So, I ended up with Crummock water and some reflections to attempt…

Crummock water, A4, watercolour

Looking Down

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 16 May 2021 17:14:11 +0000

I thought I’d paint another landscape as it’s been a while since I’ve worked on one, so I decided on the view looking down over Buttermere and Crummock. The intention when I started was to block a few areas in with acrylic to get the feel of the piece then finish it in oils, in the end I used acrylics for the entire painting as it was ‘working’ at the time. As with the majority of paintings I’ve completed for the last few years has soon as I signed it I didn’t like it Weird how the brain works sometimes.

Looking Down over Buttermere and Crummock – Acrylic on board 20″x16″

Rannerdale & Crummock

Graeme Skinner — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:48:19 +0000

We decided to go for a bit of a wander amongst the Bluebells in Rannerdale, Cumbria which was quickly followed by a trot down to the side of Crummock Water…..

Out and About…

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:16:20 +0000

Today we had a run out and visited a few lakes and fells, some we’ve seen a few times recently and a few we’ve not seen for years.

First of all we stopped near Crummock Water and wandered up the side of Cinderdale Beck.

Looking back from the beck we spotted the Moon high above Melbreak

We also spotted a couple of unnamed fell tops

After Crummock Water we stopped off by Loweswater for a quick photograph

After this I had intended taking some photographs looking out over the coast and towards Scotland, but I was shocked by the amount of wind turbines cluttering up the land and spoiling the views.

From here we popped by Ennerdale.

Finally we stopped on the way home to look back towards the fells as the light was looking nice

All in all a nice morning out and about in the Cumbrian hills.

Old & New

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:00:36 +0000

Recently I looked through an old album of mine, when I say old I took the photographs in or around 1984 so it’s old to me. Many of the images are terrible, yet there are odd ones which apart from the technical aspects of the images I could have taken them last week.
It’s strange to think that even at the age of 14 I was pointing the camera more at landscapes than people; it is not a decision I regret, photographing people holds no interest for me whereas I can be lost for hours staring through the viewfinder at a craggy hill or crooked tree. Though I say it’s not a decision I regret, it’s also not a decision I can remember making. You’d imagine there would have been some conscious thought on the issue at some point in my past, but I can’t remember any of it. I do remember taking the photographs, and standing for hours in the darkroom trying to work out what the hell I was doing. It is something we’ve lost with digital, the anticipation felt as you agitated a tank of chemicals wondering what the film would contain.
Comparing photographs taken 25 years apart is not something I’m prone to doing, but it is fun to do every once in a while (well every 25 years or so ;-)).
So, here’s a couple of landscapes from my not so distant past…

I quite like this one, it’s a scratched print of an unnamed craggy hill somewhere in the Lake District, but it shows where my interests were at the time. Then we come to the more modern photographs (many will have already seen these, but they’re my most recent images).

Melbreak