landscape – Graeme Skinner https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress Artist, designer and photographer Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:08:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-site-icon-150x150.png landscape – Graeme Skinner https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress 32 32 References https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2026/08/references/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2026/08/references/#respond Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:08:45 +0000 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=5559 Wandering this morning I added more images to my reference library, one day I’ll pick one of them and actually paint something 😉

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Whist I like it in colour I’m tempted just to keep the black and white version…

]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2026/07/alt-maen/feed/ 0 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 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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]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/02/passing-by/feed/ 0 I’m not sure…. https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2024/12/im-not-sure/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2024/12/im-not-sure/#respond Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:05:16 +0000 http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=4946 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
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