What's Happening in the Studio
Hello, Friends!
I hope the change of the season and the crispness of the air is as invigorating to the rest of you as it is here at the studio. Scotland series is drawing to a close and there are botanical sketches on the boards.
Here is what is cooking now...
acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20"
Snow Road 1
It's 6 am and the sun higher in the sky than expected. Just a Lorry, my Gulf and a lovely ribbon of road.
acrylic on canvas, 54 x 54" in process
Blairgowrie 1
Later I learned that the "Coos" were not supposed to be friendly but I spent a good hour or two one evening watching them watch me in the gloaming.
acrylic and ink on canvas, 16 x 20"
Blairgowrie 2
It is mystifying to me how such a random collection of wire and a low stone wall served as a barrier for the cattle. Some sort of social contract kept the animals on the correct side of this boundary and out of the castle drive.
acrylic on canvas, 10 x 12" in process
Blairgowrie 3
The day before salmon poachers had been chased off this particular bend in the river so I was on high alert for mysterious land rovers. None materialized and I let the sunset as the cows and I watched.
acrylic and ink on canvas, 16 x 20"
Snow Road 2
Higher up the clouds came in and the valley had a private storm and the dramatic sky put on a show just for the sheep and I.
colored pencil and graphite on archival paper 12 x 14"
Study for Snow Road 1
Here the shape of the road and the horizon line pull the eye forward while the color of shadows are explored in the fields.
ink on archival paper 12 x 18"
Study for Blairgowrie Series
This grabs a slightly different angle from the same area as Blairgowrie 3 but with greater attention paid to texture over depth of field.
ink on archival paper 12 x 18"
Study for Blairgowrie 1
The coos moved.
ink on archival paper, 11 x 14"
Study, Stone Texture 1
Modern western art would have made this carving symmetrical. This stone cross in Forfar was gleefully not.
ink on archival paper 12 x 10"
Study, Stone Texture
Adorning a gravestone in a Forfar kirkyard is this botanical chimera- it appears to be a rose, a young fern and a sheaf of corn.
