Decisions! Decisions! Here’s the other half of my Birkrigg Common sketch that I posted yesterday. This clearly shows the Hoad Lighthouse, that towers above Ulverston, whose name invokes a “wolf warrior”. I did a few of these linear sketches on my recent holiday and now I have to decide what to do with them. Continue using my drawing pen to flesh out the detail and have fun with mark-making? Or wash them over with watercolours? Or leave them alone? Decisions, decisions…
Starting With Line: 6
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I think that these are wonderful sketches with lovely changes of line and ways of mark making. Hard to know how to build from there. Could it be the basis of a watercolour? Would colour emphasise the distances?
Thank you Anne. I’ve made a start on one with some watercolour today 🙂