On Saturday we had lots of fresh snow on the ground. The weather was sunny but cold. I braved the outdoors armed with my sketching tools and warm coat and boots. There was little flurries of snow as I painted some landing on the sketch and others in my oil pastel box. This didn’t put me off as I was in awe of the scene before me.
This is the image I painted for my 2010 Christmas card. While we were out walking we stumbled upon these delightful deer crossing the track. They stopped to check us out before heading back into the shelter of the forest. I thought I would post it now for the Winter Solstice.
I did this study of Crail Harbour as a mixed media. I started with inks then soft pastel on top.
Today I did this study in oil pastel something I am enjoying more and more. I enjoyed layering in the colours for the sky and pushing in the lights to illuminate the picture.
Autumn is my favourite season of the year. I love the changing colours of the leaves on the trees before they fall. This painting was inspired by a walk beside the River Tay in Dunkeld. In a previous post I did a tiny study which lead to me to do a larger painting.
This is a page from my sketch book showing some of my thumbnail sketches. The one on the top right is my small study for the previous post of ”Snow Scene at Pittenweem”. I love doing these thumbnails and they give me energy to get on with my next painting.
Today I finished this painting of snow covering the beach on West Shore Pittenweem. My inspiration was from a visit last year on Boxing day. The path along West Shore was very icy. I loved the golden light across the water with snow covered foreground.
I liked the colours of the chairs on the deck and decided to take some down to the beach to include in a painting. It was a beautifully sunny day but quite windy, the chairs kept falling over! The contrast of the lake colours against the colours on the chairs appealed to me.
I have been at the Pittenweem Arts Festival, this was my eighth year. We were very busy, more so than last year.
I love being at the West Shore of Pittenweem. There is always something to look at, from the ever changing light to the people passing by. I especially like watching the children playing on the beach.
There were lots of favourable comments during the week and my exhibition was reviewed with others in Gavin Broom’s blog.
We had a lovely sunset one evening with the Bass Rock turning pink. And if that was not enough a rain shower made a rainbow behind the rock. Awesome!
Here is a painting I did today of my favourite beach on Islay. It was windy when I was there however very sunny and colourful.