Near Huggate - Yorkshire Wolds.

First visit 

A large canvas for a change, first of the year, 80 x 60cm

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First outing with the French easel, met some lovely people on a beautiful day. Here is Keasey Cottage, known locally as Ragworts. This is a large canvas and a late start means it was not completed in the one visit The view above shows it after session one. Below is the same painting - I took it to the same spot and did a little more work on it. I was wary not to make it too detailed, rewarding close inspection. Met a cyclist from Market Weighton who chatted about art and food. The painting below indicates the presence of beagles who passed through. The snowdrops in the verge outside the cottage are augmented by crocus flowering inside the drive. A group of mature cyclists stopped en-route for the tearoom at Tibthorpe and we shared some lovely comments about golf, cricket and rugby and how a married man should perhaps, reconsider the time it takes away from being at home.

Another sketch, an iPad animation made just past the cottage