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After an hour or two of that I was ready for a brisk walk and to sit on the bench overlooking the reservoir for my picnic lunch. I wished I'd gone back to shelter in the car to eat my sandwiches. I didn't manage to draw the subject I had in mind at the far end of the track, a banking by the trackside, because the wind was so wild in that part of the valley that I couldn't shelter under my fishing umbrella.. I went back to the more sheltered gulley and, with the umbrella up for most of the afternoon, drew in bamboo pen then added tonal washes of dilute Chinese ink (left). The forecast is better for tomorrow, but it looked good for today.
Richard Bell, richard@willowisland.co.uk |
I've
been going on and on about wanting to get back to drawing in the Peak
District but today I was wishing I was back in my warm studio. The day
started with blue skies and sun but heading to the hills I could soon
see billowing towers of cumulus stacked up over the horizon. There was
a hail storm every hour with strong cold breezes.
At
least the rain and hail gave me a subject; this is one of the drainage
gullys taking the run-off from the wooded hillside under the track at
the edge of Ladybower reservoir. The damp shady habitat
encourage a lush growth of liverworts, mosses and ferns which I started
drawing for my book.