Arram, looking towards Beverley.

I am using the concertina sketchbook on a lovely warm sunny day. Having stopped to watch a train pass I crossed the line and parked. I walked a short distance along the Minster Way footpath and saw this view of a distant Beverley Minster. I recall seeing the film, Lease of Life with Robert Donat playing a vicar. In the film which used Beverley and Lund in particular there was at one time a distant view of the Minster. This gets close. I remember when at Beverley Grammar School, we walked all the school into town, to the Playhouse Cinema to watch the film. It did not suit an oil painting so the concertina sketchbook came out. With this I could include the some of the buildings of Crowtree Farm on the left. A fence cast shadows in a paddock, the adjacent field rather less managed with umbels, longer tussocks of grass and dandelion seed heads. I sketched with pencil before adding watercolour. The warm sunny helped progress by drying the paint quickly. All done in situ. When walking back to my car I was very pleased to meet and have a chat with the occupants of Crowtree Farm, who told me how they can see the Humber Bridge from the house.

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