Stormy weather approaching – Watercolour
The scene is from the Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge looking towards the Lochaber Mountains where the forces trained during WW2. This is beautiful but very hard country which is why it was chosen in the first place. As the painting shows, a fine day can very quickly turn into a testing one.
Nikira 9:44 am on August 2, 2012 | #
Very nice clouds, love your color choice. You won’t be Mad at me if I’ll use that palette for sky in the nursing home, I will probably have to do soon? I need peaches and creams with grays and pale blues to correspond with existing walls.
Uncle Bob 10:34 am on August 2, 2012 | #
Of course I won’t be mad at you. After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
The colours are a grey mix from cerulean blue with a touch of light red BTW
greyseal 6:35 pm on August 3, 2012 | #
Is this a sandy terrain? Do they have such in Scotland?
Uncle Bob 2:35 am on August 4, 2012 | #
Greyseal. Not meant to be a sandy terrain – just the way I’ve used the sky colour to avoid painting miles and miles of heathland and heather. In answer to your second question, yes we have many miles of alluvial terrain here. Our mountains are among the oldest in the world and have, for millions of years, been ground down to fine deposits. Most of this is overgrown as the wet climate lends itself to this but where erosion is possible, eg tides, wind and water from streams you will always see sandy stretches. One of the Orcadian Islands is even known as “Sanday” the beaches are white/golden in colour. One of my earliest memories is, aged 6, playing in a burn in Glen Doll and marvelling at the sun glinting of small grains in the river bed. I thought is was gold (which it could have been – but, unfortunately, not in this case. Just mica schist).