Wet Thursday

Rotten weather again. Stuck in the house again. So, after digging through some photos that I took from the coach window on the Paris trip last year, I painted this.

Productive weekend.

This saturday was the last of the decent weather for a while (months?), so it was good to get into the garden and make a hedgehog house out of an old pallet, and a bug house with Archie. Also did a couple of quick paintings.

The hedgehog house.

Hedgehog des' res' in situ at the bottom of the garden.

Sara putting the bedding in.

Archie's bug house.

Archie, placing the bug house next to the compost heap.

Painting number one; 'Scarborough', oil on board.

Painting number two; 'Last light, Wet Sand (Scarborough)' oil on board.

Dog Days

With Seth taking his French exchange pal to Lightwater, Archie playing in the park and Sara working I decided to spend the day on the river. Sara dropped me off in Ripon at Hewick Bridge; numerous kingfishers, one heron, several buzzards, one sparrowhawk, a kestrel, one perch and eleven pike later, she picked me up at Aldwark bridge.

Autumn winds.

No sign of an indian summer. It was far too wild to go out on the river today, so I painted the river instead.

One week in.

There's never enough time. Not to do all the things that you want to do, be with the people that you want to be with, see the people that you haven't seen for too long.....
First week back at school and it's like we have never been away.

 Painted last sunday

 ..ditto

The river ouse today at Poppleton.

Mobile pics

I use my phone more as a camera than anything else...er...possible more for emails and surfing the net. Anyway I have been messing around with some of my pics. I don't usually like filtered photos, but some of these have been manipulated in that way, along with adjusting the contrast, saturation, hues, blah..

Pre-summer paintings

I've decided to put some of my (more recent) older paintings on here. Completed before the summer holiday. They are a variety of sizes, and are all oils, with most of them on canvas.

 The field over the road.

 Dog days.

 This has since been reworked and added to.

 Painted on location at Fawdington.

 Moonlight.

 I have been meaning to paint cows (and sheep and chickens) for some time.