The Windy Woods – Watercolour/Ink/Inktense on a Watercolour Moleskine
This is the far end of one of my daily walks. The proper name for out local wooded area is Tormain Woods. The “Windy” nickname comes from the fact that they are exposed to the prevailing westerly wind which “sculpts” the trees severely. Other, apt names include “Badger Woods” for obvious reasons. Badgers are not the only creatures which live here. There are foxes, stoats and weasels which, like the badgers, are hard to spot but they leave evidence of their presence. The tops of the trees are home to colonies of rooks and crows which go mad when people dare to walk through their territory. More elusive are the deer which are hardly ever seen but, if you keep very quite, you can hear them, in the distance, going “Woof, Woof”.
Mhuire 6:50 am on April 2, 2009 | #
What a wonderful place!!! I live near the forest, too, but we don’t have deers here… I would love to see one, like the one I saw in Ireland. It was beautiful…
We have crows and rooks, too, and foxes. You can see (and hear) owls in the night, and there are smelly wild boars too. And weasels, hedgehogs, moles, mouses, squirrels and all kind of birds, but not deers. You are very lucky!!!
Maybe someday you coul paint one, so I colud see it
Mhuire 1:42 pm on April 2, 2009 | #
What a wonderful place!!! I live near the forest, too, but we don’t have deers here… I would love to see one, like the one I saw in Ireland. It was beautiful…
We have crows and rooks, too, and foxes. You can see (and hear) owls in the night, and there are smelly wild boars too. And weasels, hedgehogs, moles, mouses, squirrels and all kind of birds, but not deers. You are very lucky!!!
Maybe someday you coul paint one, so I colud see it
Ooops, should have mentioned great post! Waiting on the next post!
Margie 2:30 pm on April 2, 2009 | #
beautiful!
mrosem 1:12 pm on April 3, 2009 | #
this is one of my favorites!!! beautiful.
trebor61 3:03 pm on April 3, 2009 | #
Thanks to Mhuire, Margie and mrosem. Mhuire – I’ve accepted your challenge and posted a painting of some of our native deer. I hope its accepted. Margie-I was experimenting with a new source of coloured inks here so some of the finer details are a bit too purpley/blue. Never mind, its a learning curve. Mrosem – I hope you are practising hard. Can’t wait to see your next effort.
Margie 9:56 pm on April 11, 2009 | #
HI Bob, I just saw this post (am still trying to catch up from being out of town last week). What inks did you use?
I like the ghosted tree limbs in the background. I also like all the texture.
trebor61 4:45 am on April 12, 2009 | #
Hi Margie. Hope you had a great time for your celebrations.
I use a wide variety of ink and was experimenting with “Waterman Pen Ink” in this post. The “bluey” colour was actually from the “purple” bottle. I’ve stuck a couple of photos on flickr to describe what I use.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28475994@N00/3434308900/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28475994@N00/3434308460/in/photostream/
The Parker inks separate beautifully, into their “base” colours” as they dry but I can only get black or blue. The Winsor & Newton don’t separate/granulate at all but mix very well. The acrylics are great for covering up mistakes as they are opaque while the Waterman type are somewhere between the Parker and W & N. Hope this helps, Bob.
Margie 7:48 pm on April 12, 2009 | #
Thank you for the photo of the inks – that is so cool! And helpful.
I’ve just started using the acrylic ink.
Milk bottlecaps for mixing – great idea since sometimes I only mix a few drops at a time.
Have never heard of Waterman.
I am gearing up for a weekend of lots of painting/drawing. My bi-monthly retreat where I go out of town and do nothing but draw, paint and take long walks. I’ll be taking all my inks along.
Thanks again for the photos.