cumbria – Graeme Skinner https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress Artist, designer and photographer Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:36:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-site-icon-150x150.png cumbria – Graeme Skinner https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress 32 32 Wandering https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/08/wandering-2/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/08/wandering-2/#respond Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:36:38 +0000 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=5186 A few snaps from our morning wander, some I took just for reference 😉

 

]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/08/wandering-2/feed/ 0 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 A mixed bag https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/07/a-mixed-bag-2/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/07/a-mixed-bag-2/#respond Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:35:35 +0000 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=5159 As my head is now fried 😉 here’s a mixed bag from yesterday (when we timed some drives from different parts of the area to see if we could live there or not and still get to places we need to be), and some from today on the coast blowing some cobwebs away….

Taken in my perpetual search for the Shire (and somewhere to dig a nice Hobbit hole and hide with a good book or two).

]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/07/a-mixed-bag-2/feed/ 0 Potholing https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/06/potholing/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/06/potholing/#respond Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:05:29 +0000 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=5133 Okay, maybe not, but this is the nearest I’ll get to potholing anyway. We had a wander from Long Meg down to Lacey’s Cave today which was a nice change and worth another look as there’s plenty of locations to pause for reference drawings/photos.

]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/06/potholing/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
]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/06/meg/feed/ 0 Quick wander https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/06/quick-wander/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/06/quick-wander/#respond Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:12:12 +0000 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=5125 Went for a quick wander down Long Meg Stone Circle the other day…

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*Just working out what is working and what doesn’t 😉

]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/05/another-doodle/feed/ 0 L’al doodle https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/05/lal-doodle/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/05/lal-doodle/#respond Sat, 24 May 2025 09:46:26 +0000 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=5116 Small doodle (as I’m limiting my drawing board time as my hand is on the dodgy side at the moment), this time it’s one of the Cockpit Stone Circle stones, from our visit last year, doodled in charcoal.

]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/05/lal-doodle/feed/ 0 Short wander https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/05/short-wander/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/05/short-wander/#respond Wed, 14 May 2025 12:51:18 +0000 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=5105 We had a little wander this morning before my week and the grindstone starts…

]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/05/short-wander/feed/ 0 Morning wander https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/05/morning-wander-5/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/05/morning-wander-5/#respond Sun, 11 May 2025 16:09:25 +0000 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=5096 We went for a wander from Dufton this morning towards the Pennines, was a nice change of scene…

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