Last of the Rhins of Galloway Sketches

Here’s the last of the holiday sketches. Drawn whist away and coloured/inked over the last 2 art group sessions.

Phone Edit

Nice amble around the footpaths of Kirkby Stephen yesterday.  Took a scene over the fields of Nateby to Wild Boar Fell on my phone and had a play with the phone photo edit software.  It’s a bit over processed but I do like it.

Morecambe Bay

2 new artworks in my poster style of Morecambe Bay.

Into the Bay

Island in the Bay

Added to my Landscape Gallery.
Prints and cards available.
View the works in progress from here.

Art in the Hills

Today I’m deciding on what to show at Art in the Hills.  In the meantime you can see who else is exhibiting this year
2024 Featured Artists | Dufton Village Hall

Information about the event can be found here:
Art in the Hills 2024 | Dufton Village Hall

Rhins of Galloway Beach Sketches

On this trip I used water-soluble wax pastels with an ink pen finish for my sketches. Found some of my finer ink pens had dried out so lines are a little bolder than I’d like. Here’s 5 from my trip - 3 more are at the outline drawing stage.

Rhins of Galloway

With great weather on the Rhins of Galloway have spent most days walking the beaches.

Beach Tones

The blue skies disappeared in the afternoon yesterday and we got a bit damp - but Ardwell beach was still beautiful. I like how the dark sky and stony beach frame the distant light shore.

Galloway Blues

Blue skies and sea at Ardwell & Drummore.

#galloway

Hedgerows

Walking into town yesterday the walls and hedgerows are full of flowers.

Opportunistic Walk

Yesterday saw an opportunistic walk as the weather was rather pleasant (unlike todays cool/wet conditions).  Around Brough:

pink poppies

buzzing bees

and inquisitive calves (after my friend persuaded one to leave the river and re-united her with the group).

In the Eden

Saturdays wonderful sunshine saw me in the Eden with my young friend.  A couple of photo opportunities were grabbed on the phone camera from in the river. 

The little fishes must have seen us coming and stayed out of reach of the net.  But we had fun and neither of us fell in – although there were some slippery moments.

Couldn’t resist a couple of beautiful blooms.

Blooms

Spotted these Poppies round the corner from my home. On the way back another couple of blooms caught my attention. The honeysuckle perfume was heavenly.

Bay Paintings

With the cancellation of Prom Art yesterday due to thunderstorm warnings, I decided to use some time productively. Started 2 poster style paintings that have been in my head for a few weeks. I like the way the top one is going but some thought needed for the bottom one.

Upper Eden Visitor Centre

First day in the Upper Eden Visitor Centre for several weeks.  Busy day with lots of visitors.  Re-stocked my popular lambs playtime print/cards.  Changeover of artworks and some photos.  Hoping the till balances after I had to figure out changing the roll and managing to put a transaction twice.

Seaside Blooms

Completed in pastel because I was given a bunch of green pastels and decided to play with them.

Pastel Playtime

When I recently said to the lovely Sarah Reid “I never seem to have the right shade of green and I was getting quite down on ochre pastels” look what was waiting for me in her Red Raw Studio.  I have commenced an artwork with lots of greens to have a play with them.  As I am now at the stage where I’m going in with the darks and lights (aka wreck it) decided to show you at this stage.