Watercolour Yorkshire Landscape Painting
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Watercolour on Paper 2001
6 x 4 ins
private collection
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"Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked
by the Danes, and which is the scene of part of "Marmion"...
...It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and
romantic bits; there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of
the windows."
"Dracula" by Bram Stoker (1897).
A moody, brooding Watercolour Landscape Painting of the ruins
of Whitby Abbey on the north-east coast of England.
Watercolour Landscape Painting Technique:
The Painting is based on a Photograph of Whitby Abbey
taken at midday in clear daylight and employs a certain degree
of artistic license.
Only two colours were used in this Landscape Painting of
Whitby Abbey: Ultramarine Blue and Alizarin Crimson, using
a wet into wet style of mixing Watercolor Washes to allow
the paint to blend and merge. The painting was executed over
a very sketchy drawing in soft 2B or 4B pencil.
Whitby Abbey Facts:
Whitby abbey is a ruined Benedictine Abbey founded in
657ad. It was attacked by Vikings in 867 and abandoned.
It was refounded in 1078 and dedicated to St. Peter and
St. Hilda. The second monastery was destroyed in 1540
by King Henry VIII.
Reaching the Ruins of the Abbey takes a bracing walk up
Whitby's famously steep 199 Steps. The Abbey helped inspire
Bram Stoker's Gothic Vampire Horror Novel, Dracula.
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