I'ts good to get back to drawing and painting direct from the subject even if it is hanging precariously from the side of a hill:
Tarn Crag and Gibson Knott
Ink and wash in sketchpad, A5x2.
Great name that - "Gibson Knott"!And looking up through the glen, or whatever they are called in England, past a small, almost dry waterfall called Sour Milk Gill, to the peak of Tarn Crag:
Sour Milk Gill and Tarn Crag
Ink and wash in sketchpad, A5x2.
Then some time spent idling away the afternoon beside a pure and clear burn, or gill:
Greenhead Gill
Ink and wash in sketchpad, A5x2.
What a heavenly country.
What a good holiday.
A busman's holiday.
6 comments:
Thank you for sharing your camping trip and brave and wonderful sketches. I came by the other day and marveled at all of your work, but failed to comment then.
You've had quite the adventure!
I love the way you use your sketchbook to paint fully on both sheets, for a panoramic view. Very good work. It's fun, isn't it, to revisit the representational after pushing yourself so hard in the last year?
Yeah, Melinda, it's a great relief atm NOT to be using my two brain cells!
I'm equally guilty of visiting at times and not commenting. I liked your blog on Fathers Day and I will leave a comment because I have got something to say. NO! I hear you exclaim...David with something to say! What is the world coming too :o)
what a good holiday indeed--beautiful sketches, you caught the feeling of the place(s)
How are you, David? These sketchbook panoramas give me joy - as a retired mountaineer myself.
I've spent many, many happy moments on our own Mt. Rainier, and dream of returning with the pochade box for a different sort of climbing - your post inspires me for that.
Thanks very much Celeste!
I'm still floating along on the crest of that particular holiday wave :o)
Hi Casey,
Very good to hear from you!
There is nothing quite like it to be high up in the mountains, although these peaks and crags are perhaps a bit tame compared to some of those in Scotland.
I only took sketching equipment with me on this holiday, but you are right - taking a pochade box with paints would be an excellent thing to do.
Have a look at some of Celeste's work 'en plein air' and you really will be inspired!
I am very pleased you got some joy from these sketches :o)
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