Watercolour sketches
A page to put a little more colour into the website. I have begun to play with colour in engraving prints, working towards multicolour, layered prints. In the meantime, a few watercolours that attempt to capture two features that attract me to coastal NW Scotland - the blues of the sea and the haars* (sea fogs) that can persist even on warm sunny days.
*They were haars where we lived on the east coast, I’m not sure if the same name is used on north and west coasts.
A haar creeps in off the sea and cloaks Cape Wrath. Nearby, Balnakeil Bay and Faraid Head are bathed in May sunshine. The water is all sorts of blues.
An early morning mist clings to the machair and thin grey cloud covers the sky but somehow the sea is still a tropical blue.
