a month of may days…some pages from my current A6 notebook/sketchbook; a slight return to the elements of wood and water (after trips out to the coast and into constable country)
[drawing, graphite pencil & watercolour on paper, 14cm x 20cm]
[drawing, indian ink & watercolour on paper, 14cm x 20cm]
[small sketchbook]
[drawing, graphite pencil & watercolour on paper, 14cm x 20cm]
[painting sketch, acrylic on paper, 14cm x 20cm]
nature studies
i went back to the local wildlife fen last week and completed these two quick nature studies plein air... as perceived/recorded, limited by time, size and materials... a good artist friend had given me a small sketch pad of watercolour paper; it seemed churlish not to use it... these two studies are in watercolour and watercolour pencil...
i thought it would be interesting to photograph the studies in situ, but in order to get both the drawing/painting and the 'real' landscape in the frame, the wide angle lens made the subject appear much further away than my own perception of it.. it seemed interesting too, in a phenomenological sense, to offer with one image, both the before and after, the past (as i first saw it), the present (as it appears now) and the future (in the objectiveness of such a material study)... and the apparent act of free will or intention in mark-making and gesture and yet controlled by the circumstances in which they are derived...
i guess that if i really pushed myself i could do more studies like this and perhaps get better at them, but this was not the day to pursue that, as it turned out...