Saturday, July 15, 2006

Deja vous


corn field
Originally uploaded by wherethewolvesare.
Inspired by pg's post 'Where the barley meets the river' (14/7/06) on her blog, Middle of Nowhere (follow the link - right), I looked at the farmland between Leeds and Doncaster with fresh eyes. After sketching some of it, I can see recurring themes and motifs - hirundines, hedgerows and poppies. An unexpected contradiction there.

Anyway, the sun was hot and the golden fields were still, bar the drifting aerial plankton and the hawking swallows and swifts. This summer already seems a long one, the best sort of summer.

Saturday, July 08, 2006

A swift sketch


swifts at barwick
Originally uploaded by wherethewolvesare.
This is All Saints' Church in Barwick and the dark flecks in the sky are supposed to be swifts zipping around the tower, but not screaming as I thought they always did. Maybe it's not the season.

Saturday, July 01, 2006

Moore Sheep


sheep in pastel
Originally uploaded by wherethewolvesare.
It was very warm today, so this ewe must have been very very warm. However, knowing our summers, give it a week and she'll probably be glad of that fleece.

I was looking at Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook again and was inspired (as usual) to draw sheep. Some days they really do all look the same, no matter how hard you try to use an artistic eye to find something new. It's that heat again, I'm just not used to it.

We had a hedgehog in the garden last night, only the second in nine years. Along with the tawny owl, the rat, the squirrel and inumerable cats in the garden in the last few weeks, I think I'm only missing a couple of rabbits to complete the cast of Beatrix Potter.