quite picturesque villages please..

[stevebuk]

hi
i am starting down the road of painting water colours and would like to know if any of you well travelled souls know of any nice of the road villages around the peak district or (holiday later) yorkshire area, not too bothered where they are to be honest but i need to practise my sketching and i want to sketch farm buildings, landscapes and open country side (with dry stone walling if poss)

hope i get some replies..

 

[Graham Orm]

Lymm in Cheshire,not quite Derbyshire, but a nice day out and very pictureskew.

 

[marcros]

Cropton in North Yorkshire. There is B and B or camping available in the village. Probably covered on google maps so you can have a mooch around and see if it suits- should be plenty of open landscape, dry stone walls etc.

 

[heatherw]

Tissington's beautiful and nice and quiet when the well dressings aren't on. Lots of dry stone walls there with flowers climbing up and down them.

I've always thought that Lea Rhododendron Gardens would make amazing watercolours when the rhododendrons are in flower. Probably have to wait till spring for that one, though.

Edensor, in Chatsworth park,

Bonsall

But to be honest, with watercolours any little part of the world can be a worthy subject.

Hope this helps. :wink:

 

[Flynnwood]

hi
i am starting down the road of painting water colours and would like to know if any of you well travelled souls know of any nice of the road villages around the peak district or (holiday later) yorkshire area, not too bothered where they are to be honest but i need to practise my sketching and i want to sketch farm buildings, landscapes and open country side (with dry stone walling if poss)

hope i get some replies..

I used to walk sections of the Pennine Way. I would leave with a map, compass, and a copy of Mr Wainwright's guidebooks.

His pictorial guides remain the best (imo) to this day. All hand drawn. At 2,000 feet above sea level and in heavy fog, Wainwright would get you down safely via his drawings/landmarks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wainwright

 

[stevebuk]

hi
i am starting down the road of painting water colours and would like to know if any of you well travelled souls know of any nice of the road villages around the peak district or (holiday later) yorkshire area, not too bothered where they are to be honest but i need to practise my sketching and i want to sketch farm buildings, landscapes and open country side (with dry stone walling if poss)

hope i get some replies..

I used to walk sections of the Pennine Way. I would leave with a map, compass, and a copy of Mr Wainwright's guidebooks.

His pictorial guides remain the best (imo) to this day. All hand drawn. At 2,000 feet above sea level and in heavy fog, Wainwright would get you down safely via his drawings/landmarks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wainwright

i watched the walks on tv with julia bradbury, maybe i would need something less energetic and more country lane, thank you..

 

[Flynnwood]

hi
i am starting down the road of painting water colours and would like to know if any of you well travelled souls know of any nice of the road villages around the peak district or (holiday later) yorkshire area, not too bothered where they are to be honest but i need to practise my sketching and i want to sketch farm buildings, landscapes and open country side (with dry stone walling if poss)

hope i get some replies..

I used to walk sections of the Pennine Way. I would leave with a map, compass, and a copy of Mr Wainwright's guidebooks.

His pictorial guides remain the best (imo) to this day. All hand drawn. At 2,000 feet above sea level and in heavy fog, Wainwright would get you down safely via his drawings/landmarks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wainwright

i watched the walks on tv with julia bradbury, maybe i would need something less energetic and more country lane, thank you..

I didn't mean you should actually walk it

Wainwright's hand drawn sketches would be an inspiration for your sketches/drystonewalling/watercolours.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksi ... &_from=R40

 

[zb1]

North Derbyshire has a lot of nice villages. Grindleford, Hathersage, Hope, Eyam, Castleton, Baselow, Bamford, Ladybower, Hope Valley Wynatt's Pass and Mam Tor, the whole of Edale. Then into South Yorkshire you have Bradfield, Stannington, Midhopestone, Penistone (don't laugh), Wortley, Hollow Meadows. West Yorkshire has the likes of Slaithwiate, Holmfirth (Last of the Summer Wine), Hepworth, New Mills, the famous viaduct in Denby Dale. There is also the famous church of St Mary and All Saints in Chesterfield. Stannage Edge, Derwent Edge (both near Ladybower Reservoir), Surprise View near Hathersage.

OS Landranger 110 is your friend for North Derbyshire/South/West Yorkshire and the High Peak. Have you got a specific area in mind?

 

[stevebuk]

thanks guys, lot of info here.
zb1, i am really looking for farm buildings leading to open fields, or a footpath /style leading to a church type thing.. I am also looking for anything like stone walls, sheep, cows and nice quite scenery..

thank you.

Flynwood: i just re-read what i typed to you and i must apologies to you, it sounded very ungrateful like and that is not what i intended at all, i will probably buy wainwrights book if only to see his drawings.. thank you

 

[heatherw]

If you park in the South carpark of Chatsworth and take the route shown on the map, you go past a couple of stone built farms, through lots of parkland full of sheep, and come in the back of Edensor village, close to the church. Lots of drystone walls, stiles and so on, very noisy at lambing time (Ber Ber Baa Baa)

 

[longinthetooth]

Wainwright's hand drawn sketches

Wainright's nib-scratched sketches. He was an accountant.

 

[bugbear]

thanks guys, lot of info here.
zb1, i am really looking for farm buildings leading to open fields, or a footpath /style leading to a church type thing.. I am also looking for anything like stone walls, sheep, cows and nice quite scenery..

thank you.

Flynwood: i just re-read what i typed to you and i must apologies to you, it sounded very ungrateful like and that is not what i intended at all, i will probably by wainwrights book if only to see his drawings.. thank you

You could always drive around 25 miles South East of Nottingham into the mini-cotswolds around Oakham-Stamford. Rural with honey coloured stone.

If you can't find a scene worth painting there, throw your paints away!

BugBear

 

[Silverbirch]

You mentioned Yorkshire. In the Yorkshire Dales National Park you would be spoilt for choice of the type of scene you are looking for.

Ian

 

[stevebuk]

Thank you all, all the places mentioned have gone on my 'to visit' list, i have packed up my suitcase and i'm heading off to hereford for my first watercolour painting lesson in the morning, once again thank you..

 

[martinka]

If you reach the Yorkshire Dales next week, Steve, keep out of the wind, we're scattering my mother's ashes just outside Hawes, where she had a caravan for 50 years.
As Ian pointed out, you would be spoilt for choice in any of the dales. If you do manage to connect to the forum, let us know where you are and I'll come and stand behind you and put you off. :mrgreen:
You will certainly enjoy it there, painting or not.

Martin.

 

[richard56]

Hawes is a beautiful place. We caravanned their about 5 years ago.
Fish and chip shop on your left. Fork left up the steep hill. Site on the right.
If you carry on along the road then turn right you go under a railway bridge. The time we went must have been monsoon season. The road was like a river.
Actually it was the river Dent,, I think. Very dramatic and very beautiful.
Probably the wrong conditions for water colours though.
Rich

 

[xy mosian]

I often use Goole street view to do a virtual exploration, not so good in deapest countryside where you cannot see over hedges etc., but quite useful in villages.
xy

 

[martinka]

Hawes is a beautiful place. We caravanned their about 5 years ago.
Fish and chip shop on your left. Fork left up the steep hill. Site on the right.
If you carry on along the road then turn right you go under a railway bridge. The time we went must have been monsoon season. The road was like a river.
Actually it was the river Dent,, I think. Very dramatic and very beautiful.
Probably the wrong conditions for water colours though.
Rich

I think it's the Dee that runs through Dent. Getting to the limits of my memory here, it's been a long time since I had a ride over that way. I can remember feeling as though my teeth were going to drop out riding over the cobbles in the main street, and the big stone with a date carved on it, in the middle of the village. There's a very narrow road from Dent to Ingleton through the gorgeous Deepdale and Kingsdale past Yordas Cavern, which was a show cave in Victorian times and has a waterfall inside which you can (could?) easily get to when it wasn't too muddy. The safety elfs have probably got it all locked up now. Lots of painting opportunities all around that area.
Martin, reminiscing again.

 

[longinthetooth]

Fish and chip shop on your left.

Well we know what you like to eat, then!!

I often use Goole street view

Very useful if you live in Goole!!