This picture (the latest in the monthly series of art works) started life as a black and white drawing on canvas but it didn’t work for me, too simplistic. As an experiment I used household emulsion that I’d been using to paint various things around the house. Waste not want not as we say in Yorkshire….
Category: My wife’s art
Mrs Summerhouse’s monthly art – Dallowgill
November’s art offering from Mrs Summerhouse. It’s a view of the moors of Dallowgill near Nidderdale on the road from Pateley Bridge to Masham, a scene that I have enjoyed and painted many times in many different ways. I love the shapes and the colours that change over the seasons. This picture is watercolour and…
Art from Ireland
Retirement offers many opportunities, one being time to take more holidays and, while there, time to produce more art at least in Mrs Summerhouse’s case. Her art work this month has a definite flavour of Ireland being paintings (water colour on canvas) she made during our last two visits to Dunquin in County Kerry. Next…
Mrs Summerhouse’s retirement art
Something very different this month from the Mrs Summerhouse collection. Not a picture she was contracted (by me) to produce each month, she didn’t like the one she created and so it’s not going out. This is a picture she produced a couple or more years ago, hence the title of the blog is a…
View from the Wath Road
The second in the monthly series of pictures from Mrs Summerhouse. As she describes it – the view from the Wath Road out of Pateley Bridge towards Lofthouse is one that always inspires me. I particularly like the shapes and colours after the fields have been harvested. This picture is pastels on canvas and I…
Mrs Summerhouse’s art in retirement
I said in a recent retirement blog that, in order to get Mrs Summerhouse motivated with her art, I was setting her an (agreed) target to create one new piece of art every month. I would then publish the picture on this blog. So to prove that all this target setting business works, here is…
A creative retirement : art from Mrs Summerhouse
For some time in this blog, Mrs Summerhouse has had a presence, sometimes shadowy with a passing reference, and, at other times, right at the front of operations with her occasional blogs on yoga. She teaches a yoga class every Tuesday night here in Headingley. She is a woman of many talents and one of…