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| Down From Old Man of Hoy 7.7.17 |
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| Dwarfie Stane 3.7.17 |
In preparation for our trip to Orkney with our friends the Hawkins, I hurriedly created a new altered sketchbook the afternoon before we travelled. The words on the spine are Histories Book One and it was the title that helped me to choose the book. Of ocurse you can imagine the pattern and the colour appealed to me. I think I may give it a different name eventually. I have painted over the title for later. Pages are only 13 x 18cm and I glued and gessoed first and then tinted with acrylic and schminke pastel ground, taping around the edges with removable tape. that way I was ready to begin each day.
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| Near Tomb of the Eagle 4.7.17 |
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| Nousty Sand, Rousay 6.7.17 |
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| Orkney Museum Garden, Kirkwall 5.7.17 |
Sketching while others in the group aren't is a little bit challenging in that I am not very good at asserting myself or rocking the boat, and I hate to miss anything the group does… so I only drew when it fit in with the rythmn of the day, while we were eating our sandwiches, waiting for a boat or a car, early in the morning, when someone else wanted to do something different so we were waiting. As a result I didn't so much find my spot as find something in the spot that was interesting. Also there was time pressure, so some of these sketches were made in ten minutes, others half an hour and I spent about an hour on one. My goal was to say something about the place.
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| Overbigging Orkney, 2.7.17 |
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| Path Midhowe Beach 6.7.17 |
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| Rackwick Beach 3.7.17 |
I took my pastels and a few pieces of charcoal in my two vintage tins. I limited my palette. What I did differently was I used the charcoal to think tonally before I began using colour. I learned that from Melissa Scott-Miller, NEAC by watching how she worked in her plein air painting during the workshop she taught.
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| Waulkmill Bay, Beachcombing 8.7.17 |
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