This is lovely. I like the idea of keeping notes corresponding to each sketch, very much indeed.
Wendy Pratt wrote about that precious sense of being in touch with past inhabitants of a place, in her recent piece here titled Beech Mast (Notes From the Margin) and it's a feeling I know well. x
What a wonderful post! I’m only just starting out to try and sketch, and I appreciate your suggestion of adding notes and also that you share the materials you are using. I’m not an artist as such, and lack training and knowledge of art materials, but I feel the need to try and use my hands for something else other than writing so have put a small kit together to take on hikes and during travel. I look forward to more of your posts ☺️
Dear Amy, Thank you very much for your lovely comment and for reading my post. I am really grateful for such feedback as at the moment I am writing in the dark and don't yet know whether I am on the right track, so your feedback is very welcome. Do let me know if there is anything you would like me to include in the future and will try to help!
I love your description of your tree as as a sleeping dragon, and of its safe arms. What a special place so full of history with such tangible signs of lives lived there before.
I too am making notes about weather and mood as I work, as I feel every factor we experience during our time creating is held within the piece in some way, though my notes are sadly not as attractive as yours, as I can't read my own scrawl and usually dictate into my phone!!
Beautiful newsletter, I will pass on your book recommendation to Lil, she is studying the Romans at Uni and will find it super interesting. Thank you xxx
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Thank you very much🍂
This is lovely. I like the idea of keeping notes corresponding to each sketch, very much indeed.
Wendy Pratt wrote about that precious sense of being in touch with past inhabitants of a place, in her recent piece here titled Beech Mast (Notes From the Margin) and it's a feeling I know well. x
Thank you for reading. It is much an atmospheric place and I love to think of past occupants walking the tracks with faggots of firewood! X
Thank you for a lovely post. I will enjoy the Wales book I think.
It has stayed with me. It is not always comfortable reading, but I highly recommend it.
It has stayed with me. It is not always comfortable reading, but I highly recommend it.
What a wonderful post! I’m only just starting out to try and sketch, and I appreciate your suggestion of adding notes and also that you share the materials you are using. I’m not an artist as such, and lack training and knowledge of art materials, but I feel the need to try and use my hands for something else other than writing so have put a small kit together to take on hikes and during travel. I look forward to more of your posts ☺️
Dear Amy, Thank you very much for your lovely comment and for reading my post. I am really grateful for such feedback as at the moment I am writing in the dark and don't yet know whether I am on the right track, so your feedback is very welcome. Do let me know if there is anything you would like me to include in the future and will try to help!
They really are beautiful drawings and such a fascinating history to the place you've chosen to work in. I can't wait to see and read more!
Thank you very much and am so pleased you like it.
Thank you, Jude, and for gently encouraging me to get it done! xx
Thank you for reading it, Lou. It is such a magical spot and all the more so because I am hidden away!
I love your description of your tree as as a sleeping dragon, and of its safe arms. What a special place so full of history with such tangible signs of lives lived there before.
I too am making notes about weather and mood as I work, as I feel every factor we experience during our time creating is held within the piece in some way, though my notes are sadly not as attractive as yours, as I can't read my own scrawl and usually dictate into my phone!!
Beautiful newsletter, I will pass on your book recommendation to Lil, she is studying the Romans at Uni and will find it super interesting. Thank you xxx