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10 June 2021 Graeme Skinner

This month’s theme over on John Howe’s website is ‘A Room with a View’… After all the many months of confinement, semi-confinement and other lockdowns, have you ever found yourself staring out the window and imagining a different vista? (Not that there is necessarily wrong with that familiar view, mind you, but a little variety would be nice.) So, this is your chance. Imagine where you are, imagine a window, then imagine the view. Perhaps it’s a view on the past, or the future, or another world… You’ll see… For…

Looking Down

16 May 202116 May 2021 Graeme Skinner

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…

Cloud and grey skies

5 August 2015 Graeme Skinner

Given it is supposed to be summer we’ve had far too many cloudy grey sky days recently. I’d been hoping for some nice summer days to get out with the camera and sketch book, and whilst there have been some nice days they’ve been too few for my liking 😉 So, given the weather wasn’t playing nice I decided to make the best of it and try to use the clouds and patchy light to my advantage.

Down in the river

11 July 2015 Graeme Skinner

The other day I was wandering down the river, not by the river of course, we’ve been walking in the river to cool Hugo off. Anyway, I noticed the light coming through the trees looked rather nice so decided to try and capture it 😉 whilst I liked the colour version of the photograph I much preferred this black and white version.

It’s been a bit chilly

2 February 2015 Graeme Skinner

We had a little bit of snow last week, nothing that stopped up getting about which was handy 😉 anyway, I popped out with the camera and took a few chilly photographs.