Plotting, Planning and Sketching
I’ve been out sketching again. At the moment we’re having a lot of sunny but cold days and I’ve been finding there’s just enough time to sum up a scene in pencil before going completely numb. The Howgills continue to elude me. They have fabulous shapes that resemble sleeping forms (I think human, but they’re famously supposed to be elephants) but they’re so huge it’s difficult to know how to fit them into a picture without losing the mass. The sketch below was made in a lonely valley that I love. I’m trying to learn its shape and work out what to do with it. The second sketch was just capturing a lovely moment sitting on a strip of a path somewhere very high up in the sun.
'sleeping' form in pencil, A6
on Crook fell, pencil A6
Tags: cold days, fell views, landscape, pencil sketches, sleeping forms
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:06 am
hi Helen – thanks for the pictures, I like them both. as you know, I can’t draw – how great it would be to do something like that nice Crook drawing – but I am finding I understand the structure of the Howgills slightly better by thinking about them as a large lump with bits cut out by erosion, rather than a heap of things, and by trying to imagine the angle of the planes of the bedrock – it varies, but at least at the Sedbergh end the planes face more or less NW and are tipped quite a bit downwards from SE to NW. cheers chuck!