Framing- the complete package. As I press on with completing the Wainwrights in Colour project my time is mostly taken up with finishing the sketches. Also working on the content of the book or, if I am lucky a day out on the fells to recharge the brain cells with…
Date: 9th July 2015 Location: Whinlatter, The North Western Lake District. It has been some time since I ticked off the last required reference for my Wainwrights in Colour project, well that is those ones where I needed to see the actual view that Wainwright used in the Pictorial Guides.…
Blencathra- the biggest in the bag. From early on things didn’t go according to plan. I struggled with one or two of the larger sketches, the painting just wasn’t going well and with watercolour the more you work at it the more laboured it looks. Several attempts were made but…
Blencathra- curing the artist’s block. The recent trip I had to Blencathra really cured the artists block which I had for completing the sketches of Blencathra for The Wainwrights in Colour project. Soon there will be a new blog post about it on the Andy Beck Artists site but in…
Wednesday was one of those rare days when I was able to break out of the studio, this time it was for a meeting over at The Keswick Museum. Some of you may already know that over the summer the museum is holding a major Wainwright Exhibition, A Love Letter…
