landscape – Graeme Skinner

Wandering

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:36:38 +0000

A few snaps from our morning wander, some I took just for reference

Fjall

Graeme Skinner — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:25:59 +0000

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

A mixed bag

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:35:35 +0000

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).

Quick wander

Graeme Skinner — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:12:12 +0000

Went for a quick wander down Long Meg Stone Circle the other day…

Passing by

Graeme Skinner — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:29:10 +0000

We needed to pop to Windermere the other day and went over Kirkstone Pass, so I decided to take a photo or two…

I’m not sure….

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:05:16 +0000

I’ve been playing with oils for a change, well, they’re a bit more forgiving if my hand decides to twitch and go in random directions Anyway, I had a couple of canvases waiting to be played with so a stone circle started to appear not sure if I have finished with this one or not yet…

Castlerigg Stone Circle, oil on canvas, 12×12 inch

Still standing

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:36:24 +0000

We had a quick trip down to Long Meg stone circle earlier…

Time…

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:56:22 +0000

Time being what it is, in short supply and something that vanishes in the blink of an eye, I was rather pleased to find a few minutes to take the camera for a jaunt down Ullswater way.

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

Slater’s Bridge

Graeme Skinner — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 15:24:15 +0000

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 more time on the leaves than the water, I also probably spent more time on the bridge than considering how the water should look – not that I’m overthinking things at all.

Slater’s Bridge, watercolour