Valleys & Rocks

The sets I did on valleys & rocks were composites again, using sketches from Ireland, Wales & the The Lakes. I did a whole series of skylines & then added features later. I've got dozens of skylines still waiting for details. I tried to make the skylines & the lines of the hillsides accurate, while rocks, gates & paths were added from other sources & because of the way the wax flows (or doesn't) some just happened. Since having a decent scanner, I messed around with the images, mainly altering colours.
I've shown them with the original first & then the altered image after it.
The first one was actually a real failure that I just liked. Using a full sized iron meant that I sometimes had difficulty when I tried to get perspective & scale to look right. The icicles were meant to be small & hanging from a branch. I just altered the whole thing when that went wrong!

The next two were a skyline from a place that I think is called Windy Gap in Co. Kerry. Mind you, the detail is from elsewhere because there is really a road running through the valley. It's one of those places that you arrive at unexpectedly because it doesn't look as though it's there until you get "round a corner." We went with Stan & Jackie, got out & walked & then when we tried to find it again a few years later, couldn't locate. I started to think it was a figment of imagination, but Mortimer seemed to think that it existed when we described it.

The next 2 were based on 3 sketches from near Cwm Idwal

This "happy accident" is where I got a patch of rocks completely in the wrong perspective, but liked the gorge it made.

Derbyshire & watercolour

While looking for standing stones I also found this to remind me that I used to carry a miniture watercolour set in my ruksac as well as sketchbook & pencils. Curbar? Baslow? Stanage? Not sure which "edge" this is. It looks like Baslow, but where from?