Archive for month: January, 2018

A Magical Winters Morning at Shugborough Hall

January 5, 2018/0 Comments/in Staffordshire Plein Air /by Lisa Oakley

A Winters Day at Shugborough Hall

I was delighted to be photographed by the National trusts volunteer photographer at a recent visit to the estate during the bad weather.I was wearing 3 coats and was freezing the whole estate looked magical

Many thanks to the National trust for sharing .

Here is me starting the oil sketch

This was the finished Pleinair oil sketch /study

Happy New Year

January 5, 2018/0 Comments/in Staffordshire Plein Air /by Lisa Oakley

Wishing you all a happy New Year I hope you have had a great Christmas !

I haven’t posted in quite a while, So I thought it would be nice to start 2018 with some new blog posts showcasing some of my oil sketches done in the latter end 2017 in and around Stafford .