long meg – Graeme Skinner https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress Artist, designer and photographer Sun, 08 Jun 2025 10:58:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-site-icon-150x150.png long meg – Graeme Skinner https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress 32 32 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…

]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/06/quick-wander/feed/ 0 A Daughter of Meg https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/02/a-daughter-of-meg/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/02/a-daughter-of-meg/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:41:32 +0000 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=5014 Returning to my (almost) obsession with painting/drawing/photographing standing stones, here’s one of Long Megs offspring….

One of the daughters, A3, Charcoal
]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/02/a-daughter-of-meg/feed/ 0 Down to the stones https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/02/down-to-the-stones-2/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/02/down-to-the-stones-2/#respond Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:21:19 +0000 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=5000 When we visited Long Meg last year and took a few photos (here), I intended to use a few of them as references for paintings, it took a while longer than anticipated to start but that’s the way things go 😉 anyway, this one may be finished. Or at least, it’s finished for now…

Long Meg, 20″x16″
]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/02/down-to-the-stones-2/feed/ 0 Balls https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/01/balls/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/01/balls/#respond Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:01:16 +0000 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=4990 Decided to try something a bit different at Long Meg this afternoon…

]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2025/01/balls/feed/ 0 Still standing https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2024/08/still-standing/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2024/08/still-standing/#comments Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:36:24 +0000 http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=4829 We had a quick trip down to Long Meg stone circle earlier…

]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2024/08/still-standing/feed/ 1 Mist(ick) Meg https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2023/12/mistick-meg/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2023/12/mistick-meg/#respond Thu, 07 Dec 2023 15:14:56 +0000 http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=4726 Quick(ish) watercolour of a misty Long Meg and her Daughters stone circle.

 

For some reason the scan has come out with some odd colour casts and tinges, I’ll have to try and rescan it.

]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2023/12/mistick-meg/feed/ 0 Back to the stones https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2023/11/back-to-the-stones/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2023/11/back-to-the-stones/#respond Tue, 28 Nov 2023 15:27:26 +0000 http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=4718 Popped round to Long Meg this morning for a visit since it was a nice misty morning in the Eden Valley.

]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2023/11/back-to-the-stones/feed/ 0 Down to the stones https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2022/10/down-to-the-stones/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2022/10/down-to-the-stones/#respond Sat, 22 Oct 2022 15:05:20 +0000 http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=4504 We popped down to Long Meg the other day as it’s been a while since we last visited, luckily it was dry and the light was nice…

 

]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2022/10/down-to-the-stones/feed/ 0 Long Meg (again) https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2021/12/long-meg-again/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2021/12/long-meg-again/#respond Thu, 30 Dec 2021 16:53:06 +0000 http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=4390 I decided to play with a carbon pencil for a change, and ended up doodling Long Meg, it was quite enjoyable to do something different for a while.

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