MORE PLEIN AIR – WATERCOLOUR SKETCHES

At the risk of testing your tolerance, here are further sketches from the weekend. In this session I returned to an old haunt of last year – the Rufford Branch canal; a short stretch of canal off the main Leeds to Liverpool canal. It is a quiet, out of the way, place.

I loved this rickety bridge which crossed a ditch close to the canal.

And here is the canal – a quiet little backwater. A swing bridge allowed for a vantage point to view up and down the canal. It also saved me the usual task of hunting for my brushes in long grass.

Finally, a road-side cottage, viewed from the canal. I liked the light highlighting part of the roof (yep, life in the fast lane) and the orange from dried vegetation in the part-ploughed field added extra colour.

But most of all it was the pleasure of sitting in the early morning sunshine, just observing the surroundings and listening to birdsong.

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