waterways project: aylestone meadows, winter
Aylestone Meadows, Winter, sketch, Vivien Blackburn, charcoal, watercolour and gouache on hand made paper 6x4 ish
A small sketch on hand made paper of the water meadows and the medieval packhorse bridge in the cold winter light. The light today is grey/white and leaches the colours, making the world almost monochrome. The bare branches make intricate lacy patterns.
It was done mostly in charcoal and charcoal pencil with a little watercolour, small touches of coloured pencil and white gouache on a pale beige paper.
You can see earlier work in the series here or here. At Watermarks, our group blog, some of us are going to revisit a place throughout the year as the light and seasons change, noting the changes in colour and mood with time. This is going to be 'my' place to revisit. It only takes about 15 minutes in the car and I like the area with its canal, stream and multiple bridges from the medieval through Victorian to modern.
This is to be part of a series on local waterways that I started some time back - it got put on a back burner due to circumstances outside my control - as politicians say - but I'm hoping to get back to it now, in between other work.
Are you working on a series? leave a link if you are?
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My series are still in the planning stages, nothing begun just yet.
Jeanette thanks :>) I love these old bridges too - and to think that it was there before Christopher Columbus sailed to America ....
Thanks Ann - it's good that you are planning. I think you learn a lot working on a series. I do anyway :>)
annie
You have a way with watery shadows, Vivien. Turner's influence, perhaps?
yes, same bridge but that was Spring and much warmer!
Now family legend says that Turner is family - it was my maiden name. I have VERY carefully not researched it so I can keep half believing!!! I do love his work, especially his sketch books. I saw a fabulous exhibition of those at the Tate a few years ago and they were so free and so contemporary.
Thanks Ann and Lindsay :>)
I have started a series. Lately, and oddly for secular me, I've been feeling the need for something that would provide a spiritual practice. I'm going to try to do a moon panel once a month (twice in December) and see if that scratches the mystical itch. I have an in-progress shot of the first one up at the croft.
Reviewing what was satisfying in the work I eked out last year, I found that I liked the discipline of the Moby Dick series best, so I'm continuing that and hoping that this new series will be similarly rewarding.
cheques or even checks are gratefully received ;>0