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'Moel Famau from Loggerheads'
Oil on Panel.
Lying fairly locally to our home in Ruthin is a place called Loggerheads. It's a great little spot, which, because it is close-ish to the English border is quite a favourite for day trippers from Liverpool and elsewhere.
It boasts some good walks, a river running through, an escarpment (if that's the right term) which overlooks the surrounding landscape and which has a view over the Clwyddian Hills. This painting is from the top of the escarpment looking towards Moel Famau (pronounced Mow-el Vam-eye) which has the tiny tower on top.
From the tower itself, there are great views in all directions and one can see as far as Liverpool itself.
I've been drawing there many times over the years, and I recently went there with the group of artists and friends that I call the 'Saddleworth School'. They came across from England to have a sketching session, and then an evening in our local music club in Ruthin.
'Moel Famau from Loggerheads'
Oil on Panel.
Lying fairly locally to our home in Ruthin is a place called Loggerheads. It's a great little spot, which, because it is close-ish to the English border is quite a favourite for day trippers from Liverpool and elsewhere.
It boasts some good walks, a river running through, an escarpment (if that's the right term) which overlooks the surrounding landscape and which has a view over the Clwyddian Hills. This painting is from the top of the escarpment looking towards Moel Famau (pronounced Mow-el Vam-eye) which has the tiny tower on top.
From the tower itself, there are great views in all directions and one can see as far as Liverpool itself.
I've been drawing there many times over the years, and I recently went there with the group of artists and friends that I call the 'Saddleworth School'. They came across from England to have a sketching session, and then an evening in our local music club in Ruthin.
This is Dave, one of the Saddleworth painters getting stuck in.
We had a great day and it's good occasionally to combine the social side with outdoor painting.
Of course painting outdoors is usually quite a solitary activity. Loggerheads is a place that, apart from being very paintable, is also very safe, because there is a regular, gentle, flow of passers-by (often with a scouse accent).
Of course painting outdoors is usually quite a solitary activity. Loggerheads is a place that, apart from being very paintable, is also very safe, because there is a regular, gentle, flow of passers-by (often with a scouse accent).
So, (thinking about the possible hesitation felt by any woman when choosing to sketch on her own in the countryside), this site could be recommended, I would have thought.
Here's one of the quick sketches made at Loggerheads.
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Here's one of the quick sketches made at Loggerheads.
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What are these, and who painted them?
(The answer will be in the next posting.)
And here's the answer from the last posting -
'Bathing Huts at Blankenberge'.
by Henry van de Velde, 1888, Kunsthaus, Zurich
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"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard."
Leonardo da Vinci.
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Life and Fate.
by Vasily Grossman
This is one of those strong, realistic, sweeping novels that we associate with Russian writing. It is . . . 'an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman's characters must work out their destinies in a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war.'
Grossman finished this book in 1960 and it was confiscated by the KGB. It was not published until it was smuggled out of Russia in 1980 to the West, where it was hailed as a masterpiece.
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