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Monday 22 December 2014


 CLICK  sketch book 9 0N flicka

New painting using - Mixed media - watercolour,acrylic with textured rollers, acrylic ink,stamping using ink pads, black pen and white marker on Saunders Waterford 140 lb high white paper.
Village in Langdale valley Cumbria from our holiday at Chapel Stile. Bus ride to Clappersgate (first time I have used my bus pass although I've had if for 6 years) then walked back on the south side of the River Brathay.



Latest painting added to Artfinder web site




Tuesday 9 December 2014

ARTFINDER: Harbour at low tide by Malcolm Coils - Original painting of a harbour at low tide.Tr...

ARTFINDER: Harbour at low tide by Malcolm Coils - Original painting of a harbour at low tide.
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New sketches

Highlight and Wooden Doll Pub at North Shields viewed from Tynemouth

Chester-le-Street view of the traffic lights at the market place on way to the Art Club on Newcastle Road in the Community Centre.

Small bridge on the Dalton Beck in Seaham Co. Durham

River Wear at Durham City draw from near the Baths Bridge looking downstream with the Castle on the horizon. Drawn on site over lunch.

Crossgate peth Durham City.

South Bailey on the Durham Cathedral peninsular which leads to Prebends bridge. Have moved the Cathedral to the right.






Thursday 27 November 2014

George Birrell book and video

links

Flipbook

Video talk about his work


THINGS SEEM TO HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM PICTURES I HAVE 
COPIED FROM  THE INTERNET ?

Saturday 22 November 2014

Blanchland paintings



Completed two paintings of Blanchland in watercolour on 200 lb Bockingford paper which were lying around unfinished after a query on the internet about a painting of the village.

Polperro painting


Black lines and watercolour started Wednesday at CAS and completed this morning and uploaded to Artfinder.



Thursday 13 November 2014

Deerness Art Group Sunday 9 November 2014

Dave Barden tutor again, he was here last November, and once  again encouraged our members to work from personal memories to produce a painting. He brought along two examples of his work both based around his love of music.



My project started by drawing using a black marker a flat view of Staithes bank .
Working on 200 lb Bockingford paper (actually the back of an old failed watercolour.) using coloured tissue paper aligned to the top of the roofs with a random bottom edge. Newsprint was added to some the walls. Watercolour was added to the base and textured using cling film.





Similar process used in the second painting but this time drawn in perspective.

I later sealed the paintings with acrylic medium and and over painted with tube acrylics to complete the paintings. 


 I used Google's Picasa 3 to create the mounts and frames.


Monday 27 October 2014

Chester le Street Autumn Exhibition 2014

The exhibition started Sat 25/10/2014 in the library in Chester le Street.



Nice entries from our new member Gillian Burrell.

My entries
Seaham Beach and Elvet Bridge from Browns boathouse

Old Elvet Bridge and Fairfield

Painting of Old Elvet Bridge painted on Friday afternoon as the original entry I had put into Shepherds Dene Exhibition. Collage and acrylic on 20 x 16 inch canvas board.


Friday 24 October 2014

Elvet Bridge painting form Browns Boatyard

Chester le Street Arts Wednesday 22 October 2014.

Prepared canvas board with gesso, added blue strips of tissue and added some grey colour randomly to the canvas. I had no idea of which way up or what picture of the four views I had of Elvet bridge I was going to paint.

I settled on the view from Browns boatyard looking across to the Swan and Cygnets pub with the Old Town Hall in the distance together with the church spire where my daughter Lesley was married.
The initial drawing was done with a rectangular block of graphite using the long side edges for the straight lines. Blocked in with blue acrylic ink using small piece of mount board and the texture added using a black ink pad straight on to the canvas.


Next day added some colour to the Old Town Hall the far bank of the River Wear and the stonework on the bridge with tissue paper and brown ink pad. Subdued the blue tissue on the pub and added the pier numbers.


Ready to seal and varnish for exhibition on Saturday 25th October at Chester le Street Library.

Only one picture left to paint and time is running out!



Saturday 18 October 2014

Dearness Art Group Exhibition at Shepherds Dene Retreat near Riding Mill in the Tyne Valley


Six paintings entered into Shepherds Dene exhibition. I was only 2 weeks late as I had forgotten about the taking in day on the 4th October but the organiser Jenny Mathers kindly offered to take my late submission.

Painting of Blanchland done the previous evening using collage and acrylics. This was a replacement for a painting I had sold on Artfinder website.


Waiting in reception for Jenny as we were a little bit early so it gave us time to look at the exhibition and the Warden also gave us a guided tour of the house. Deerness Art Group members were at the retreat for three days painting and were busy in the upstairs Newell Room and in the ground floor Garden Room . The garden was a riot of autumnal colour.

View from the Terrace Room.

Later we drove to Hexham and had lunch in the Chinese restaurant-( the worst Chinese I have ever had ) and then a walk around the town.


Sunday 5 October 2014

Rothbury Demonstration

Wet drive to Rothbury for watercolour class at Coquetdale Art Gallery
from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm- direct road still closed due to landslide.

Eight people at the class - Ann, Jane, Josie, Barbara, Heather,Sheila, Carol and Ted who was also steward in the gallery so had one eye looking for visitors.

In the morning we painted a traditional watercolour landscape using transparent washes of a coastal scene of Sandend on the Moray Firth in Scotland.

My painting that session

Overall wash used was cobalt blue greyed off with brown madder and Naples yellow for the lower sky then same blue for sea and far rocks and raw sienna for the sand  painting around the white houses. Wet into wet building wash of cobalt blue, raw sienna, and brown madder painting the negative shapes of the fence posts and poles.
Masking tape used as a guide for the horizon and cobalt blue for the sea.
Rocks three washes 
  1. Raw sienna 
  2. Cobalt blue, permanent magenta and raw sienna for shadows
  3. Brown madder with ultramarine blue or ultramarine and burnt sienna for the darks.


Students work at midday.








The late afternoon was more a fun session which everyone seemed to enjoy doing
 a black outline of a village and filling in the shapes with textured watercolour.
Cling film, splatter in a confined area blocked off with masking tape and  plastic needle workers grid to give an impression of roof tiles were used.
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Monday 15 September 2014

Dearness Art Group Sunday 14 Sept 2014

Acrylic on 20 x 16 in canvas board shows the Dairy Bridge on the River Greta just above the Meeting of the Waters on the River Tees at Rokeby Park. This was a favourite haunt of Turner and Cotman while staying at the Hall.

Complete the picture of the Highlight and Wooden Doll North Shields.


3 pictures taken to Rothbury Coquetdale gallery on Saturday


Thursday 28 August 2014

Wednesday 28 August 2014 CLS Arts Society


Watercolour from previous week. Another attempt at Cullercoats on 200 lb Bockingford paper size 15 x 11 ins.

 Acrylic on 20 x 16 canvas board of Highlight and Wooden Dolly pub in North Shields