On being wrong June 2021

 I've always had my own level of perfection, if a colour was wrong in a blanket I would frog the whole thing rather than leave it imperfect, sometimes I'd frog 2 or 3 times until it was right. 
I don't think anyone else would of noticed that it was wrong, but I couldn't live with the mistake shouting at me every time I looked at it.

I've noticed the same is happening in my drawings. My "Cindy's Deck" panorama of Lynton is wrong, I don't like the tree's on Hollerday Hill, Countisbury isn't right and I'd like to redo it in black and white.

But....... maybe I'm wrong, maybe I should leave it as it is and move on to a new view of Lynton.

I've always believed you should never go backwards, even though that's exactly what I've done in the last few months. I've gone back 20+ years and started drawing and knitting again. Although the knitting is just as bad as its always been, 20 years life experience has changed the style, technique and level of professionalism of my art work. So its not really going back its moving forward with something that's been on hold for a long time.

The reason for this blog post is that I am working on my next panorama this time of Lynmouth, I've finished the first drawing and am over halfway to finishing the second. 

This morning I was really excited to lay them together to see the full effect, even though Im really happy with both drawing Im not happy with the way they fit together. 

I have several options, 

1 - Pretend they are 2 separate drawings

2 -  Redraw one of them completely 

3 - Just ignore the fact that the trees aren't big enough over the Bath, the slipway has a bump in it and the water in the harbour is flowing the wrong way

Normally I would scrap one and start again, but maybe I should leave them as they are and let the viewer either not notice the mistakes or think that they are intentional. 

When they are framed they will have a bigger gap between them and the mistakes might not be noticeable at all.

I think I need to leave them as they are and keep my fingers crossed that the 3rd drawing fits a lot better with the 1st.

Sketches of Lynmouth June 2021

I've been working on lots of sketches of Lynmouth in preparation of tackling another panorama.
I'm completely obsessed at the moment, all I want to do it draw.

I was awake at 3 am for no particular reason, so I'm giving myself the day off drawing complicated charts for my next crochet book, they'd only go wrong and I'd have to redo them and allowing myself to draw more pictures of Lynmouth instead.

The Tors & Rock House

Countisbury again!

The Rhenish

The Rising Sun

Rock House

The Bath

Lynton From Cindy's Deck May 2021

 

Something big is finished. Im really happy with most of it, but there a few things I have developed further, mainly my technique and symbolisim, I'd also like to do it in black and white.. The trees on Hollerday Hill are wrong and so is Countisbury.

I won't turn this into a print as I want to redo it at a later date, but I will sell the originals, message me if you are interested. They are Coloured pencil and acrylic pen on A3 paper.

Lynton, Something big April 2021

 For a long time I've liked the idea of making an image of the whole of Lynton. Its a tiny little toy town nestling in a little valley, behind a big hill, sheltering it from the Atlantic north winds. And its been my home for the past 9 years, I'm very proud of where I live, so when we went to see a friend who lives on the opposite side of the valley I took the opportunity to photograph the whole town.

When I say its a tiny town, it really is tiny town, smaller than a lot of villages, only just over 1000 permanent residents.

I started by joining all the photos together on photoshop, then divided it into 4 to make it easier to work on. So far I have finished 3 of them and just about to start work on the 4th.

They are not perfect and but I've learnt a lot and want to draw Lynton again from several different view points.

180 degrees at Landacre

Landacre 26/4/2021

A trip to Lanacre with mummy and the boys, plus the gipsy dogs. Ron was a nightmare, desperate to run and chase stones, too many people around to let him off the lead, no one wants a wet half greyhound running through their picnic. So not much sketching done, but enough to draw later.

Towards Pinkworthy Pond April 2021

 26/4/2021

Another favourite dog walk, I live on Exmoor I have a lot of favourite dog walks 😄

Ilkerton is only 3 miles from home, up the hill out onto the wild and windy moor, to vast atmospheric views.  I especially love the view across Ilkerton Ridge towards Pinkworthy Pond, the curve of the hills and the little trees in the distance.

It'ss another image I will revisit in time.

Woolacombe April 2021

 We like to go on road trips to walk the dogs. Woolacombe is 20 miles away, so we go a lot as its a massive sandy beach that stretches for miles  especially in the winter as its a popular dog walking beach. In the summer its full of tourists, so not a good place to take 2 idiot lurchers. But whatever the season its perfect for the tiny boy's.

I never used to draw buildings, I couldn't be bothered to master perspective, but 20+ years later I am fascinated about how the shapes fit together. Maybe its due to 15 years of working with geometric shapes in my blanket designs. I even like the idea of tackling perspective, but not going to worry if its wrong, I quite like slightly wonky.

These are all sketchbook sketches so it doesn't matter if they are good or bad, I've developed the ideas and 6 weeks later using them in a big project.