 I don't usually work from photographs I haven't taken, but this beautiful image has been kicking around in my "Ideas" file for some time now. Of course this cries out for en plein air treatment, and how I wish I could set up my easel there and smelled that damp, moss-ridden lane. How I wish I could walk to the end and peer over that dead-end - but at my advanced years the best I can do is to try a studio version.
(Based on a photograph called "Where The Little People Play" by "Ceilog" posted September, 2003, on the Wet Canvas! photo reference site.) For a complete step-by-step dem click here. The image size is 14" X 10", on 300 lb Arches cold pressed paper, using W&N Artists Quality watercolours. |
