Here’s the fourth ancient burial site I drew over the weekend on my visit to ancestral graves in North Pembrokeshire. It’s a beautiful little chambered tomb called Carreg Samson, near Abercastle. The dolmen looks out across The Irish Sea from a farmer’s clifftop field in a glorious setting. It’s around 5,000 years old and is the site of over 1,000 burials and more recently a shelter for sheep.
I forgot to take a drawing board with me so I scrabbled around on my hands and knees, drawing on the grass. I drew very quickly because it was cold, blustery and uncomfortable. I drew with a piece of Daler Rowney carbon onto a piece of Fabriano Accademica paper (200 gsm) that I had marbled with oil paint mixed with English Turpentine. I like the effect that the marbling gives to these Neolithic stones.
When I got up off my knees, I realised that the field had been recently occupied by cattle. The evidence was on my leggings. I suffer for my art 😡
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Alas no dolmens in Canberra, but we do have amazing granite boulders , maybe it is time to go for a bushwalk.
oooh that sounds good
Such a beautiful and expressive sketch. Here in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern we have also such dolmens, too. They are always impresive. Have a nice day!
Oh, i must check them out. I love dolmen. We walked miles in Malta last Winter to look at theirs.
Productive weekend.
Oh yes and more to come 😊