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Step by Step Landscape Demo: Winter Hill (Spring 2009)

By On May 3, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Art, How to Paint, Lancashire

Step 1

A 16 x 12 sheet of hardboard, primed with a single coat of acrylic gesso.  I’ve decided to apply a thin, watery layer of burnt umber which is a warm, orangey brown.  Hopefully it  the colour it provides will provide a warm background for the colours in [...]

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The Panorama from Winter Hill?

By On July 26, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Horwich, Inspirations, Lancashire, Pennine, Rivington

I’ve been told many times that, on a clear day, you can see the Isle of Man from the top of Winter Hill. I had begun to wonder if that wasn’t just an urban myth, passed from generation to generation of ramblers.

Now along comes www.viewfinderpanoramas.org – a useful site that contains computer generated [...]

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