John and spent the weekend decorating (yawn), so on Monday I treated myself to a day of painting in Whirlow Park.
I packed a sandwich and a flask and was there by 9.30am, when nobody else was about yet. I took a range of materials, so I could experiment and see what took my fancy.
After a while, people started to arrive and I could see them watching me from a distance. A few bolder ones came up and chatted, including a very elderly couple, who since retirement have painted in aid of St Lukes Hospice, selling digital prints of their work. They have collected around £100,000 over 20 years. Impressive.
To stop myself being impatient while waiting for the watercolour to dry, and ruining things, I did a second drawing in another sketchbook, this time in coloured conte sticks:
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10 comments:
I really like the conte -drawing! A quick cure for impatience! :)
Beautiful park! Wanna go there!
Lovely! And I also really like the conté drawing.
Yes, the conte drawing is realy nice.
How lovely these watercolor and conte drawings are!!
Excellent!
What a lovely sense of light you've captured, Lynne!
eautiful light and colors you just feel like going to this park.
These are so lovely. I want to go the park too.
Thank you guys.
Nice to see the two approaches in the bottom scene. I like the conte version for greater contrast and depth and for the reflections in the pond. All good.
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