Drawing and Painting the Landscape – Reinventing

 

Sketchbook Ferns (1)
Ink and Charcoal on Paper
20cm x 25cm (8" x 10")

Lesson 26 of Drawing and Painting the Landscape by Philip Tyler is called Reinventing. It contains an exercise to take close up photographs of textures you find in the landscape and to experiment with creating the essence of the texture by scribbling in your sketchbook.

Sketchbook Ferns (2)
Ink, Watercolour Marker and Charcoal on Paper
21.5cm x 29cm (8.5" x 11.5")

I experimented with some photos of ferns I took in the garden of the Egypt Mill. I’m not sure how much I learnt about drawing, but I learnt a lot about the structure of ferns. This is an exercise I intend to return to again - thinking about the texture of larger surfaces such as fields and buildings.

Stone Masonry

Harbour Wall
Watercolour on Paper
 22.5cm x 16.5cm (8.75" x 6.5")

Stone Masonry is the penultimate topic in the Earth Textures chapter from Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor by Claudia Nice.

The picture is of a piece of St. Michael’s Mounts’ harbour wall. The outbreak of little white spot's are small limpets attached to the stones.

You find a photo of a section of the wall here https://www.stmichaelsmount.co.uk/images/uploads/feature/Village_and_Harbour/_2560px/st-michaels-mount-village-harbour-kathryn-yengel.jpg. The bit I painted is further round towards the mouth of the harbour - close to where you get on and off the ferries that operate at high tide.

As well as taking Claudia’s advice I also took some more of John Lovett’s advice from his book Textures, Techniques and Special Effects for Watercolor – as I have done for the last couple of topics.