Greeting Card Durham City Blue

Greeting Card Durham City Blue. An A5 Greeting card, with a watercolour painted ‘Splash’ picture of the Durham City skyline. With Durham Cathedral, the Castle and then St. Nicholas Church spire, forming the skyline. These are the main building elements in this watercolour painting by local North East artist Louisa E. Taylor. This Durham skyline, watercolour painting has mostly blue tones, with oranges and pinks. The buildings in this painting are mostly a solid blue colour. With patches of lighter blue in some of the buildings and then different shades of blue paint has been used for the ‘splash’, The right hand side of the painting has the most ‘splash’ in the buildings. The watercolour paint used on the buildings has been diluted at the bottom, this gives a softer spread to the paint, while the outline of the buildings are nice and crisp. The splash in the sky is mostly blue and purple. The bottom part of the painting gets warmer colours added, including oranges and reds. This is a popular painting, printed as a greeting card. Great item to send or to keep.

Her main paintings are of the Newcastle skyline, buildings and bridges, here she has turned her brushes and creativity to the beautiful buildings of Durham City.  Louisa’s Newcastle paintings can be found here in our Newcastle Art section.

This Durham skyline, watercolour painting has mostly blue and purple tones, with oranges and pinks used in the ‘splash’ parts of the painting. The sky and base of this painting is quite light and plain. This keeps the viewer focused on the buildings of the skyline.

The Greeting Card, come in a clear cello bag, with a white envelope. The size of the greeting card is 210x148mm. The card is left Blank Inside for your own message.

This watercolour painting is also available as a mounted print. For more details, click here.