I'll have to see if I can find that Landscape Artist of the Year episode, it sounds great! I do enjoy the Portrait Artist one but haven't seen many of the Landscape ones.
Oh gosh, that place is beautiful and intimidating. I didn't even attempt to draw on location there. The wind was just unbearable. Well done on persevering!
It is such a beautiful place, really wild and exciting! I got caught up in the fun of it and forgot to worry about the drawing which was such a nice feeling!
The wildness there is just amazing! I did have my husband around to do the video! I did wonder how I would manage that myself, without my phone blowing away 🤣
I’m desperate to go draw there too. My brother used to work nearby and he sent me pictures and it looks so atmospheric. I love your little sketch, no idea how you managed it in that wind though!!
Yup - totally echo your sentiments! It took me a long while to get over my unrealistic expectations when I went sketching - not to mention the terror if a passerby wanted to stop and chat, and worse, take a look at my doodles... !!
Woo hoo! Here’s to taking the pressure off and having fun- I love the way sketch books are time portals and still take you right back to that moment years later xx
Brrrrrr! Here in Washington State, USA we also have a place called Dungeness... which I thought was interesting since it’s also a windswept place that stretches out to the cold ocean.
Oh that’s interesting, John. I believe there’s a Dungeness in Canada too. I guess they might have been named by fishermen travelling between UK, US and Canada who noticed they all looked similar?
Brilliant and kudos to you for ploughing through the wind to meet your goals! <3 You can make a masterpiece from the sketch later in someplace more comfortable with a lesser difficulty rating!
Love the drawings Nanette! I’m struggling keeping any sort of drawing habit at the moment, and your words on what a drawing is or should be, is really helpful to my mind right now ♥️✨
It’s so hard to keep a drawing habit! I even read that Atomic Habits book to try to find a way to keep myself going 🙈 Instagram puts huge pressure on making me think I need to produce perfect drawings every time so I’m trying really hard to break that idea, glad it helped a bit!
Wonderful, Nanette! I live just along from Dungeness and know it well. It's a place of extremes. I've been caught out badly with sunburn at Dungeness almost as often as I've been blown off my feet. I recognise the wobbly-hand-in-the-wind.
Oh gosh - windy or what!? I love wind mind you. As you say Nanette - drawing is another way of knowing, witnessing, experiencing etc so who cares about the outcome - the process is the payout:)
Are you sure that wind was just 40mph?! You get extreme sports and then you get extreme sketching...
(Didn’t they shoot an episode of Landscape Artist of the Year there?)
Extreme sketching - a new olympic category! 🤣 🤣 🤣
I'll have to see if I can find that Landscape Artist of the Year episode, it sounds great! I do enjoy the Portrait Artist one but haven't seen many of the Landscape ones.
Oh gosh, that place is beautiful and intimidating. I didn't even attempt to draw on location there. The wind was just unbearable. Well done on persevering!
It is such a beautiful place, really wild and exciting! I got caught up in the fun of it and forgot to worry about the drawing which was such a nice feeling!
brilliant - loving the wildness. the videos are art in themselves 😂
The wildness there is just amazing! I did have my husband around to do the video! I did wonder how I would manage that myself, without my phone blowing away 🤣
It’s brilliant! I can so relate to the feeling of pressure when finally visiting a place of your dream!
It was a lovely to pressure to feel, especially as it totally lived up to the dream!
I’m desperate to go draw there too. My brother used to work nearby and he sent me pictures and it looks so atmospheric. I love your little sketch, no idea how you managed it in that wind though!!
I think you'd love it Lemady! The atmosphere is amazing - it's sort of strange and bleak but also really invigorating!
Oh my you are so brave Nanette 🙌
More stubborn than brave 🤣 It was good fun as well! Thanks so much Teresa!
Yup - totally echo your sentiments! It took me a long while to get over my unrealistic expectations when I went sketching - not to mention the terror if a passerby wanted to stop and chat, and worse, take a look at my doodles... !!
Argh! The terror of the passerby! It’s so awkward when someone wants to chat, or peeks over your shoulder! 🙈
Woo hoo! Here’s to taking the pressure off and having fun- I love the way sketch books are time portals and still take you right back to that moment years later xx
Time portals is such a good description Sam! They totally are!
Brrrrrr! Here in Washington State, USA we also have a place called Dungeness... which I thought was interesting since it’s also a windswept place that stretches out to the cold ocean.
Oh that’s interesting, John. I believe there’s a Dungeness in Canada too. I guess they might have been named by fishermen travelling between UK, US and Canada who noticed they all looked similar?
Brilliant and kudos to you for ploughing through the wind to meet your goals! <3 You can make a masterpiece from the sketch later in someplace more comfortable with a lesser difficulty rating!
Haha! That’s a great idea Patricia, I can work from it in front of a lovely fire!
Love the drawings Nanette! I’m struggling keeping any sort of drawing habit at the moment, and your words on what a drawing is or should be, is really helpful to my mind right now ♥️✨
It’s so hard to keep a drawing habit! I even read that Atomic Habits book to try to find a way to keep myself going 🙈 Instagram puts huge pressure on making me think I need to produce perfect drawings every time so I’m trying really hard to break that idea, glad it helped a bit!
My goodness that was windy! I really like your hasty sketch ❤️
Thanks Jane! It did blow out the cobwebs!
Wonderful, Nanette! I live just along from Dungeness and know it well. It's a place of extremes. I've been caught out badly with sunburn at Dungeness almost as often as I've been blown off my feet. I recognise the wobbly-hand-in-the-wind.
Oh my, I can imagine that you would really catch the sun in Dungeness. It was really bright even though it was a dull day!
Oh gosh - windy or what!? I love wind mind you. As you say Nanette - drawing is another way of knowing, witnessing, experiencing etc so who cares about the outcome - the process is the payout:)