Oil pastel for quick capture of light and colour. This drawing, one of many similar ones that year, became the starting point for some twenty paintings. Opening it just now I found a small piece of chocolate wrapper - ah! the immediacy of the sketchbook... can still remember how the light was blooming up off the Mawddach estuary that day, who was there, everything.
Superb sketch, Julian. I have never been to Cader Idris, but I've heard of the legend:
ReplyDeleteGiant Idris's lofty Welsh cadair:
Misty mount, kept by osprey and adder.
Sit the night out with Idris?
Beware! If you did this,
You'd end up a poet, or madder.
Indeed! The boys and I plan on spending a night up there soon...
ReplyDeleteJust done a new painting from that drawing this afternoon and discovered that my favourite oil yellow is more toxic than I thought. I always end up using fingers...