Tag: lake district

Slater’s Bridge

Graeme Skinner

We’ve been offline for a while (thanks to a tree snapping the fibre during a storm), so couldn’t post this when I finished it. I started this a couple of weeks ago, along the way I changed direction quite a few times – mainly because of the gaps between painting when I’d forget where I was going with it (I don’t think distraction free painting time exists ;-)). Thinking back to when I started this painting I was more interested in painting the water than anything else, though I spent…

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…and in reflection

Graeme Skinner

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…

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That confusing moment…

Graeme Skinner

I started a pen & ink drawing of Rannerdale Knotts as it’s a view I’ve not tried before. So obviously I picked up the watercolours for this pen & ink 😉 anyway, after a bit of splashing paint around I had finished and wasn’t to annoyed by the result which was a nice change. I took a quick scan of it then went to work. Now I look at it on the computer I’m not sure why I thought it was okay, time to go back to the drawing board…

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