One more London Travel Poster. This drawing is of St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square adjacent to the National Gallery. I'm off soon to help set up our Exhibition at Gallery 35, Chapel Walk in Sheffield City Centre open 11th- 16th August!
Another Travel Poster
LONDON (Westminster Abbey)
My impression of Barker's Pool, Sheffield
My impression of Barker's Pool Sheffield. It's for our (Heeley Art Club) Exhibition at Gallery 35, Chapel Walk, Sheffield 11th-16th August - come along! While I was finishing this one our younger daughter Sian was producing our next generation - our next prince "Rory". It wasn't easy but both are well! Congratulations to her and Andrew. Our Rory was born in time for the kick off of the new football (soccer in the USA) season at 2.11pm. Love you all 3. x
Another Travel Poster
Another Travel Poster, this is Higger Tor about 3 miles from home.
Travel Posters continued
This time in square format.
Vintage Posters in my style
It was suggested to me to look at ideas for Posters in a vintage style but with the help of more modern techniques (ie. via my computer). Without starting from square one, I used one of my (many) scanned images and with a few adjustments my first effort ended up with the attached. Can you spot the little twist?
Doug's dog Spike
Heeley Art Club last night the theme was "animals"
HAPPY 4th BIRTHDAY FFION
Happy Birthday to our beautiful, feisty American granddaughter in Colorado Springs - "mermaid on a pogo-stick". The pogo-stick was her birthday present choice and she did ask for a mermaid on a swing on our post card from Mallorca last April - I combined them on her birthday card!
Sheffield on the Hill
Sheffield on the hill - looking up Pond Hill..... stage 3 finished! Can't decide whether or not to add it to my display in the "10 artists and 10 paintings" at Baslow on 24 & 25 October. In the meantime I must do some house maintenance, painting and decorating!
Sheffield on the Hill - stage 2
Sheffield on the hill - looking up Pond Hill..... stage 2: the windows and a few shadows.
Sheffield at the top of Pond Hill
Next!! Sheffield on the hill - looking up Pond Hill..... stage 1, the pen drawing.
Whitby, North Yorkshire, after the landslide
Whitby after the Landslide. Finished at last! Do you think I've put too many seagulls on the mudflats - they're usually all around the chip shop.
Whitby continued......
Didn't get anything done today (grandchild minding) but just the foreground and shadows to paint!
Whitby
I'm well on with this one - "Whitby after the landslide" - it's for the "10 artists and 10 paintings" Exhibition at Baslow on 24 & 25 October this year.
Beauchief Gardens, Sheffield
2 sketches from our outdoor meeting last Tuesday evening with Heeley Art Club at Beauchief Gardens, Sheffield upstream from Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet which you can see on the upper sketch across the mill-pond.
Spanish Idea-02
Cordoba Arches - another idea I'm thinking of developing into a full size painting
Spanish Idea 01
Granada Towers - following our visit to Spain I'm thinking of images I've retained in my mind for turning into full size paintings - this is my first sketch idea
5 Sketches
- These are 5 sketches which I completed on a folded/layflat A3 sketchbook the day before we rushed off to Rhosneigr in Anglesey just over a week ago.
Alhambra panorama Granada Spain
Anthurium at Sheffield Winter Garden
Higger Tor - just 8 miles from Sheffield City Centre
St Paul's Cathedral, London
Inspired by the waterfalls of the Vale of Neath, South Wales
Spain, Andalusia, Granada
A very fast sketchette of the Alambra in Granada from the Mirador in front of the Church of San Nicholas across a very steep and narrow valley. It had to be a very quick sketch - friends were waiting. I perched myself astride (like on a horse) a low stone wall to stop the crowds on the placa pushing me off the wall and down a 20 foot drop to the road below. I met a very nice Spanish lady who had enough English to say she liked my painting - I only had enough Spanish to say grathias!
The Alambra panorama
The nice Spanish Lady.
Seville, Spain
While my wife and friends went on a riverboat trip on the Canal de Alfonso X111 - an arm off the Rio Guardalquivir I spent the morning drawing the Cathedral and part of the afternoon painting it. I was sitting under a shady tree just outside the exit from the stunning Alcazar which we had visited the day before. A guide on one of the many packs of tourists that stood in front of me while I was drawing said to them that it was the best view of the Tower - my instinct to sit in that spot was spot on!
