Husb and I took a walk up the mountain Llyn y Fan on the Bank Holiday to visit the smaller of the mountain lakes, Llyn y Fan Fach. I took some sheets of Somerset paper that I’d prepared in advance. This sheet was primed with white acrylic gesso, than brushed roughly with my home made walnut husk ink and finally I painted on the swirls with Bideford Black mixed with Nori paste (read about the process here).
I’ve been trying to push out of my comfort zone so I used this sheet up the mountain, at the lake. It’s so weird that I couldn’t even begin to do anything representational. The black swirls dominate so I just sat on the grass and got into the atmosphere of the place and let it guide my choice of colours and what I did with them. Maybe a bit like the Surrealists used to do.
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