New Painting: Aberdeen

My latest painting is from a trip to Aberdeen a couple of years ago. My friend Daisy and I went to visit my cousin Miriam who was at university there. We did lots of exploring including hitting up three castles in two days.

For this painting I used a short video I'd taken as a referance. I just paused it on a good shot and took a screen shot.

The canvas is 40x50cm and painting using oils.

Quick Painting: Stonehaven

I made this painting as a little break from sewing all the dogs. 

I keep a folder of my photos that I think might make good paintings so when I decided I wanted to do a little painting I just picked an image out from there.

The picture is of Dunnottar Castle in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen. I visted there two years ago with my cousin and friend as my cousin went to university in Aberdeen. The trip was something of a castle tour as we hit up three in two days during our visit.

To create the painting I roughly sketched out the image on to water colour paper before painting it. I then went over the painting with colour pencil to add more details.

See the video below for the whole process.

This Week I...

...went to Aberdeen!

My cousin Miriam will be graduating from Aberdeen University in a few weeks so my friend Daisy and I took the opportunity to go and visit her before she leaves.

Miriam took us around the university campus, including it's own botanical gardens. We were very lucky with the weather as it was warm and sunny most of the days we were there. 

We also ventured out of the city and went to visit three castles in two days. This one in Stonehaven had a lovely walk/trek up to it.

How was your week?