Bleak fishing – Ink in a Watercolour Moleskine
I sketched these two guys, yesterday, from the comfort of my car. I’m not sure they appreciated my interest as the conditions got wetter and wetter. I was quite safe as there was a stretch of water between us. They must be keen.
PS I’m sending some of this rain to all you drought stricken Moleskiners. We are fed up with it.
It should arrive in about nine days. 
KirbysArt 8:36 am on September 2, 2009 | #
Just as long as it doesn’t form into a hurricane. I haven’t watched the weather at all this hurricane season and wow none showed up yet. I’m crossing my fingers.
~Kirby
Linda Bachrach 12:33 pm on September 2, 2009 | #
There are those pretty colors again that you are so good at! This simple drawing is really charming.
Alberto Cuadra 1:18 pm on September 2, 2009 | #
Awesome sketch Trebor, as always. BTW, those two guys look miserable! Dude I know that kind of weather. In the Basque Country, were I’m from, we get 6 months a years that fine, cold annoying rain.
Nick Powell 1:35 pm on September 2, 2009 | #
Bob are they bleak or are they fishing for the bleak fish
latin name Alburnus alburnus?
Which ever it is, it reminds me of days in this sort of weather fishing in my youth!
Inktense again I presume,I had a go with them recently, they seem to take a bit of getting used to and it does not take much to over do the colours!
Rudat 1:54 pm on September 2, 2009 | #
Wonderful scene, Bob! Sometimes it’s difficult to remember rain, thank you for this lovely reminder. Nine days and counting….
mono 1:58 pm on September 2, 2009 | #
i think i’m in the minority, but i like rain, i’m always happy when summer ends and autumn comes. so this makes me like the sketch even more.
Sophie Brown 5:07 am on September 3, 2009 | #
I like anything with “bleak” or “stark” in the title, usually. I like rain most of the time but it’s only fun being really caught without an umbrella once a year or so. That happened a couple weeks ago. I wasn’t carrying anything that would get damaged, put my purse in a plastic bag, and then went on out to walk a half mile home as my umbrella had fallen apart. And it was coming down. I do like rain so long as it’s not warm. Warm rain is disgusting, especially in NYC. As Burt Reynolds once said in a movie, “That’s not rain. That’s Heaven relieiving itself on my head.”
trebor61 7:49 am on September 3, 2009 | #
Good of you all to provide feedback. Whatever your weather, as the Irish say, “may the wind always be at your back”. I’m really quite a nice guy and would be willing to share this stuff with you except with Alberto who seems to have enough of his own. I could even arange for it to be cold for Sophie. As to seasons, I agree with Mono. I think autumn is the best of all seasons. A time to wind down and enjoy the country as it heads into hibernation. I would love to visit the “fall” in place like New England or the Rockies but I hate travelling so I’m relying on you all to paint nice colourful scenes when it comes.
(one for each of you)
trebor61 7:50 am on September 3, 2009 | #