Over the past few days I have been painting a scene from the “Meadow” near my home. I have made several small watercolour sketches :
However, today’s effort was disastrous – the paint was too thick from the start and I tried mixing greens as my green paints were running low. I then tried to put things right but made them worse. The result may not look that bad on here – or that different from the rest – but it is when you actually see it.
I’d had some bad news earlier and was not in the best of moods for painting so I decided to cut my losses……..
Instead I did some research and trundled down to the Meadow with my i-pad and wellies . The nettles and other greenery along the stream are very high at present – such a contrast to the winter months. I got well stung! However, I enjoy wading rather than using the path and it took my mind to other places. I’m afraid I can’t sketch when I’m trying to balance on slippery mud…….but I took a lot of photographs.
In some places the river had just dried up and come to an end. I had to get back on the bank and walk along to trace it’s course, because clearly the water was flowing through somehow.
The Friends of Meadowside had a clean-up day recently so there was not very much rubbish lying about I’m happy to say. There were a lot of patterns to be seen – the dappling sunlight; the cracking earth in the dried up river bed; the patterns made by tree roots; especially when the earth around them is eroded; and many more.
Another visit soon I think.