As I was getting ready to do an early drive into town I noticed the sky was turning a bit red, so decided to take a few quick photographs to stitch together – Thirty minutes later I was back home and the sky had quickly changed (as it does) and now the red dawn had been replaced with some rather impressive grey clouds – if you can call clouds impressive that is? I thought they looked interesting anyway and took another series of photographs to stitch together –
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Changes
It’s interesting to see the weather change around you, though normally I like to be hidden away indoors when it’s turning bad 😉 Anyway, the day started out fine with a nice touch of mist rising from the River Eden, so I took a few snaps by Langwathby. Then it all clouded over and looked a little boring for a while – well, boring for landscape photographs or sketching that is. We ended up having a run down to Kirkby Lonsdale, I took the camera along more out of hope…
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I went out this morning nice and early as there was mist forming quite nicely in the Eden valley, my intention had been to capture a bit of the early morning summer atmosphere. Not far from the house I paused and started taking photographs, and it was indeed a pleasant morning to potter about with the camera taking both moody misty shots and shots that I could only describe as desolate. So why is my favourite photograph of the morning one of a scarecrow in the field next to…
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Following the sketch of High Snockrigg and Others (link) I decided to try a small watercolour of the scene. It became a little frustrating not getting chance to properly do all the trees as I kept pausing to do other things, next time I may do the smaller trees differently, but generally I thought the result was acceptable.
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A slight departure from my usual stuff I suppose but this morning I decided to play with some Derwent pencils for a while. Rather than use them as I normally do, to sketch out a rough idea before painting, I decided to complete a drawing with them on a nice piece of crisp white Bristol paper. Another slight departure was the subject matter. The weather outside was rather wet and windy when I started so a reference photograph was good solution, the one chosen was taken last week at Buttermere…
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