Original art by Fiona Glass
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Herdies say “hey”
Or should that be “hay”? Anyway, here’s the watercolour version of my hungry sheep! I may still add some detail to the foreground but it’s very much a pen-and-wash so I don’t want to go in too heavy with the paint. What do you think?
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Manna House art exhibition
As promised, here are some more details about the charity art exhibition one of my pictures will be featuring in soon. The ‘Keep the Door Open’ exhibition will be open, free of charge, at the Manna House HQ at The Stephenson Centre, Ann Street, Kendal, on several dates in October as follows: All the works…
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More sheep…
This is my second ever attempt at drawing sheep (a couple of Herdwicks photographed in Keswick) by hand. It’s not perfect (I swear they moved when I wasn’t looking, lol) but they have a certain charm… I’m hoping to do a pen-and-wash style thing by adding watercolour soon so watch this space.
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Morph at 50!
Does anyone else remember Morph on the BBC children’s art show Take Hart? I loved that show growing up – it was so inspirational, and made me wish I was artistic. At the time, I didn’t think I was… funny how things change! It’s hard to believe Aardman Animations, Morph’s creator company, is celebrating 50…
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Spot the sheep!!
Spot the sheep!! This is a slightly crap photo of my latest pen-and-ink-and-watercolour, because the paper buckled and created an odd corrugated effect. It’s of a scene in Coppermines Valley, Coniston that I photographed in dramatic conditions earlier this year. I used blue pastel paper because I happened to have a small piece left over…
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Boiling point?
This has to be one of the best bits of street art I’ve ever seen. We came across it under a couple of railway bridges, in London, somewhere near Brick Lane on the borders between Hoxton and Shoreditch, a few years ago. The full text read “This melting pot is at boiling point” which seemed…
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Charity exhibition alert!
New exhibition alert! ‘Wheel of Time’, a charcoal and pastel drawing of one of the old water wheels in Coppermines Valley, Coniston, is on its way to a charity art exhibition in aid of Kendal homelessness charity Manna House, organised by local artist Jess Levine in October. Stay tuned as I’ll have more details soon, including the…
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An old stone circle
Here’s a teeny tiny sketch of the Bronze Age stone circle at Birkrigg, near Ulverston, from our walk at the weekend. It was hard to draw the foreground as in between the stones is just short, sheep-cropped grass, but maybe I could use some watercolours if I do another version. You’ll see from my journal…
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And the colour version…!
I tried using watercolours on the farm buildings sketch I posted the other day. I really wanted to highlight the vivid pink of the hydrangeas on the wall – it’s not there yet but I can always fiddle with it some more once it’s fully dry…
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Old farm buildings in the sun
We had a super walk over Birkrigg Common near Ulverston this morning – it’s a mixture of moorland and limestone pavement with a stone circle and amazing views of Morecambe Bay and the Lakeland fells. Coming back, we got slightly lost in a maze of narrow lanes and I fell in love with these gorgeous…
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