Oh dear what are we going to do about the weather! It has been so terrible it's even made the national news this week (not for the first time but you might be forgiven for thinking it would be for nice weather and not torrential downpours and flooding.)
Walking up around Peniel Heugh earlier in the week the rain was never far away. The sky was beautiful and changed from moment to moment, looking north grey dominated and then south and west, blue.
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| Setting off, the light was beautiful. |
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| Approaching rain, Eildons in the distance |
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| Big Skies |
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| Ruberslaw in the sun |
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| Peniel Heugh |
As for me it's the first few days of the holidays and I've been in the studio concentrating on those cloudy skies and rain soaked landscapes. I am like every one else fed up with the rain, but like I've said before rain means painting and I can't complain on that level.
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| Work in progress |
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| Work in progress- today |
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| Sketch book today |
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| Studio today |
Being too wet and unpredictable to draw on location I've been trying hard to work from memory. It's a challenge and as a way of being more disciplined about the process I'm not printing off photographs and not taking my laptop into the studio. It definitely is aiding a more expressive approach. I just hope I can keep things fresh.
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