Scarborough Castle
Yorkshire Watercolour Landscape Painting
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Watercolour on Paper 1999
10 x 6 ins
Private Collection
A Watercolour Landscape Painting of the ruins of
Scarborough Castle on the North East coast of England.
Scarborough Castle is a 12th Century fortress. The keep
was built in the 1160s by King Henry II and is 300ft (91m)
above sea level. The present Medieval Castle was founded
in the 1130s by William le Gros. Scarborough Castle has
been managed by English Heritage since 1984.
Watercolour Landscape Painting Technique:
The sky is painted with a very wet single Wash of
Ultramarine Blue Watercolour Paint with a hint of
Alizarin Crimson to add warmth. Areas of the sky were
missed to give a hint of broken white cloud.
The foreground scrubland and cliff edge is impressionistic
and undefined giving emphasis to the detail in the castle
walls and the small red-roofed building to the left of the
composition. The blue toned shadows reflect the colour
of the sky and hint at the sea which is behind the viewer.
A Signed Greetings Card is available of this Painting click here
Steve Greaves
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