101 uses for a Garden Bench, no “48 – a Wine Cooler” – Watercolour in a Watercolour Moleskine
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2010Jan 44
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2010Jan 2
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My Workshop and Garden in the snow – Acrylic and Watercolour on a Watercolour Moleskine
I needed a small screwdriver yesterday. No problem – just go out to my workshop. Workshop is half buried in drifting snow and the locks are all frozen. No problem – just use oil or car de-icer to unfreeze the locks. Guess when this stuff is? Oh well! Will just have to paint the scene, in my new A4 Moly, instead of becoming involved in it. Will the rest of 2010 be like this?
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2009Dec 31
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A walk among snowy trees – Watercolour in a Watercolour Moleskine
My mind tends to wander during these walks in the snow. Its quite magical – in small dozes. I’m always happy to get back indoors and warmed up again. While “breaking a new trail” earlier I recalled some of the poems of Robert W. Service. This is from “The shooting of Dan McGrew”
Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear,
And the icy mountains hemmed you in with a silence you most could hear;
With only the howl of a timber wolf, and you camped there in the cold,
A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;
While high overhead, green, yellow, and red, the North Lights swept in bars? —
Then you’ve a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and might and the stars.Quite evocative, Eh! Now to put you further in the mood for cold walks get a copy of Jack London’s – “To build a fire”. This will make you appreciate the warm indoors. Although Edinburgh is not as isolated as the Yukon it certainly feels as cold at the moment. A happy and warm New Year to you all.
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2009Dec 29
tags: Brrrr | snow
After the Storm, Part 2 looking northwards from our village – Watercolour in a Watercolour Moleskine
To complement the previous post, this shows the scene, after heavy snow, looking north towards the Ochill Hills. Parts of this area were cut off from the rest of us as the roads became impassable. After a week things are better but more snow is on the way. Better start panic buying foodstuffs.
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2009Dec 28
tags: Brrrr | snow
After the Storm, looking southwards from our village – Acrylic in a Watercolour Moleskine
This was after around 12″ of snow, last week, which blanketed everything. I’ll try to paint the scene looking to the north which is similar yet different and post it later. Any amount of snow, at this time of year, is not normal here – our main falls are in January and February. We also have had low temperatures of -11C, much colder up north. It is, of course, nothing like parts of Europe and North America. Thank God for central heating. I wonder what the rest of the winter will bring?
