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“Edlingham Castle” (work in progress)

I wanted to share some work in progress with you on a little painting I’m doing of Edlingham castle. It was built in the early 12th C by the Normans, it’s in Northumberland and I can walk to it everyday from where I’m staying!

Sketch of Edlingham Castle, Northumberland

Sketch of Edlingham Castle, Northumberland

(Forgive if my pictures aren’t perfect as I’m using my camera to upload images) I brought my field kit with me and walked not on the typical path that tourists take right up to it, but one that goes behind an old Abbey that sits next to the castle grounds. I don’t like to be painting around lots of other curious people so I decided to view from afar. I found a big wooden gate with nice heavy posts that I sat on top of, I sometimes have a pad I can sit on to keep away the dampness, lucky I had it today. I decided to do a detailed drawing of it, not knowing if I’d get time to watercolor it on the spot, I took several reference photos before I left. The weather got really drab, cold, windy, actually chilled me through! So…the detailed sketch is as far as I went! Pretty clear for being drawn while sitting on a fence post!

Edlingham castle sketch

Edlingham castle work in progress

Back in a cozy house, with a pot of tea, I pulled the picture up on my laptop and worked on it from that. The color is NEVER the same but it’s not a bad way to work, especially good if you can take color notes while in the field. I figure I may get back down there on a nice day and finish it up, or just work from the photo, we’ll see.

Until I finish it, you can see some nice photos of the castle here in my shop. Follow the link above or go to this one for more photo note cards of the castle.

Here’s a link to a website where you can search for castles, this page is about Edlingham castle.

Here’s another link, this is by a ‘local’ man who puts where you can go on walks on his website, great pics here!: http://www.northofthetyne.co.uk/Edlingham.html

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