Frozen pool with rope. Mari French 2014
Photographs from my walk around Harpley today. Sub zero temperatures overnight had left some interesting results. I particularly like the way natural and man made objects have been trapped in the iced-over puddles.
Umbellifer. Mari French 2014
Umbellifer 2. Mari French 2014
Frozen pool. Mari French 2014
Frozen pool 2. Mari French 2014
Frozen pool. Mari French 2014
Trapped leaves in ice. Mari French 2014
Melted frost catching the sun. Mari French 2014
detail from sketch of dead sunflowers © Mari French 2011
okay… I realise many images can be intriguing when cropped and magnified, but I love this detail from a late afternoon sketch I did in November, in a field of dead sunflowers (in Harpley, Norfolk). I like the dark beauty of the granulations of colour as they have bled and flowed together. This is why I enjoy playing with wet-in-wet watercolour often combined, as here, with watercolour pastels. (Just wish I could reproduce this effect on a large scale!)
Below is the original sketch, and a further detail. For me the dead plants are more satisfying to paint than the living summer ones, glorious though they are to look at.
Winter sunflowers (watercolour sketch) © Mari French Nov 2011
dead sunflowers, detail from sketch © Mari French 2011
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