standing stones – Graeme Skinner

trying hard ;-)

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:52:53 +0000

I’ve been trying to get my hand/arm coordination back into working order; I’d say so far it is 50/50 there are periods where I don’t notice anything wrong, and others where my hand goes where it wants regardless of my brain shouting “go left”. Anyway, I picked a couple of images I took at Crawick Multiverse last week as references and started splashing paint around – both are A4, and after picking up the car from the garage this morning and receiving the bill in the form of a bound book with an index, glossary etc., they’re both for sale (£4000 each or both for £10000).

A Wee Break

Graeme Skinner — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:12:41 +0000

We had a few days away in Scotland, wandering, hiding, drinking, sleeping, and taking a photo or two…

Our first stop was on the way to our accommodation, just outside Dumfries is the stone circle Twelve Apostles –

On the first day we visited Crawick Multiverse, which continued the standing stone theme really

We also stopped by one of those Andy Goldsworthy eggs, I believe it’s an advertisement for his building work, or maybe a sample of his brickwork abilities.

The next day we popped round to Threave House, we didn’t go into the actual house but wandered around the gardens…

Leaving Threave we had a drive around Loch Ken, my Loch Barbie joke wasn’t all that funny after I repeated it on a five minute rotation, we did stumble across a nice waterfall which called for some long exposure photographs

We popped into the churchyard in Kirkland as there were commonwealth war graves marked there, not that this the photo of those graves…

Our obligatory trip to see the sea ended up with a drive to Ayr –

Finally a trip to Kirroughtree for a wander under, erm, trees –

Yes, we did get lost in the woods, I blame the markers that we were supposed follow were a bit random at times.

Down to the stones

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:21:19 +0000

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″

Stones in the mist

Graeme Skinner — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:13:20 +0000

I’ve been tinkering with some ideas of standing stones poking out of the mist, mainly trying to get some ideas together for a painting, still a way to go but it’s fun playing with different ideas.

Sketching The Stones

Graeme Skinner — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:53:28 +0000

I’ve been trying to use more carbon is my sketches and so I tried, Royal Sovereign Wolff’s Carbon (2B) for a couple of sketches. They’re quite nice to use but hard to get a scan of the finished piece that looks anything like the original I also tried out the Derwent Artists Sketching Pencil (Midnight) for one of the sketches which was also nice to use but I found it a little waxy. Anyway, the first and the third sketch were made using the Wolff’s Carbon pencil and the middle one using a Derwent. I was working A4 but found it a little restrictive and need to use larger paper to properly try them out.