Thursday, February 24, 2011

23 February 2011



Fleet at Causeway
Pencil (6-B)

This is a view I see whenever I leave or come home.  I am trying to get a feel for it when I am not driving past it.  It is too wide to see all at once, or to draw big enough to see on 9 x 12" paper.  Driving makes it look so different, too!  Then the view is is scrolling past me - or I scroll past it.  

I want to do a painting of this view, preferably on a grey day when there is snow on the ground.  The wind really whips up the river valley; then my easel won't stay standing.   Since the tide must be high to see the boats, this doesn't give a lot of opportunities.

3 comments:

Amy Mann said...

so good to see your drawings again! A great idea for a painting... Maybe you could do a really large panoramic one, made up of smaller canvasses, like David Hockney has done.

Em said...

Oooo! A great idea - a line of smaller paintings! These are really nice studies for them, too.

Helen O said...

Ohh - I LIKE that Hockney idea! I love his work, get inspired reading his words (am reading That's the Way I see It right now.

It feels so good to be back drawing!

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