Drawing and Painting the Landscape – Collage

That Mon & Brec View Again
Collage - Drawing and Painting the Landscape
Collage and Ink
21.5cm x 14.5cm (8.5" x 5.75")

Lesson 16 of Drawing and Painting the Landscape by Philip Tyler is about collage. Philip explains the technique and sets an exercise to make collages from newspaper painted with white, black and yellow ochre acrylic paint. He cautions against tracing shapes on to the collage paper and suggests instead visualising your scalpel or scissors as drawing tools and collage as an organic process of addition and subtraction.

Portland and the Chesil Beach from Abbotsbury Hill
Collage - Drawing and Painting the Landscape
Collage
21cm x 14.5cm (15.5" x 6")

The view of Portland and the Chesil beach from Abbotsbury Hill has appeared on a previous post (see From Abbotsbury Hill). This is one of my favourite views. I have precious memories of stopping in the lay-by on long hot cycle rides for an ice-cream and a cold drink.

The view from the Monmoutshire & Brecon Canal has also featured on previous posts about Drawing and Painting the Landscape (see Revealed Landscape, Partial Peak and Negative Painting).

Surf and Ocean Waves

Surf off St Martin's
Watercolour on Paper
210mm x 165mm (8.25" x 6.5")

"Surf and Ocean Waves" is the last topic in the "The Look of Transparency" chapter of Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor by Claudia Nice. This is another subject for which Claudia’s step by step pictures were helpful to understand how she built up her painting.

This picture is based on some photos of the surf off St Martin’s in the Isles of Scilly. Elaine and I are planning to visit the islands again, this time with Doris. You can fly with your dog from Land’s End on an 8-seater BN2 Islander – it’s a really enjoyable experience. Doris would love the Isle of Scilly and we are sure she would like flying as well - pretty sure (ish).