145 - Tree Sketch

Sketched directly in pen from a photo I took last Summer.

95-Tree Study

A section of an old tree near Newhouse Burn near Iveston

94- Tree Study

"A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation robes" - Alexander Pope.

93- Walkway near Allen's Ford

87-Walk by Swan's revisited

Thought it would be interesting to take yesterday's water colour which turned out a bit flat and lifeless and try to add a more tone and detail using Photoshop.

82- Boggerhole Revisited

A digital painting of a tree I sketched in pencil last week [no.70]. This time I painted the tree in Photoshop working from a photograph I had taken.

81- Delves Wood Pathway

78- A pathway near the Gill Bridge

This time I used pencil to add some tone.

73- A tree by Stockerly Burn (Pen)

72-Woodland walk by Thomas Swan's (Pen)

My challenge for May of doing an outdoor sketch or painting every day has been revised to a more reasonable goal of doing a total of 31 pictures (equal to the days of the month). I am still aiming to get out as much as possible but getting to a location, finding an interesting subject and fitting this around other commitments has proved to be quite difficult.

70- The road to Boggerhole (Pencil)

I'm setting myself a challenge for the month of May of doing a sketch or painting a day in the open air or 'plein air' as they say in France! Ultimately the aim is as always to improve but I'm hoping that this will help me with things like perspective and composition, as well as giving me some much needed practice painting with water colours. It's probably not going to be pretty at first but hopefully by the end of the month I will be able to show a marked improvement.