stone circle – Graeme Skinner

Meg

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 10:58:08 +0000

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

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…

L’al doodle

Graeme Skinner — Sat, 24 May 2025 09:46:26 +0000

Small doodle (as I’m limiting my drawing board time as my hand is on the dodgy side at the moment), this time it’s one of the Cockpit Stone Circle stones, from our visit last year, doodled in charcoal.

Cockpit

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:28:49 +0000

A quick(ish) watercolour of a few stones from The Cockpit Stone Circle, Cumbria. I used a reference photo from our visit last year (link).

Cockpit Stone Circle, Watercolour 15.5″ x 11.5″

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″

First visit

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:26:33 +0000

We had a wander this morning to look for a stone circle we’ve never visited before, we tried to find it years ago and completely missed it (but then we didn’t have a map or a phone with us ;-)). Luckily we found the Cockpit Stone Circle quite easily this time, was a bit strange visiting it on a busy day for walkers/cyclists/horse riders and for no one else to pause and look at the stone circle.

Walking towards the Cockpit Stone Circle.

Looking down towards Ullswater.

The Cockpit Stone Circle.

Still standing

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

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

Back to the stones

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 15:27:26 +0000

Popped round to Long Meg this morning for a visit since it was a nice misty morning in the Eden Valley.

Down to the stones

Graeme Skinner — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 15:05:20 +0000

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…

Long Meg

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 13:45:34 +0000

This morning I popped round by Long Meg, mainly because I needed a reference photo or two for a painting I’m planning. When I returned home I started playing with one of the photographs on the computer and ended up making a print of it