I have completed a couple more wee Scottish inspired watercolours this week. You can see process photos above and below. I have taken to doing a couple of the watercolours at the same time - gives each time to dry between painting sections.
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Following are a couple of photos of the ruined cottage with the strong rust coloured roof.
The wee cottage below was seen on a trip on a back road top Ullapool. The roof was more maroons than red rust.
The number of watercolours is growing.
As the title says today I'm simply sharing a range of photo taken over the last week including the flowers above; and flowers and leaves below.
A couple of G's orchids.
A fence of tiny spiders' webs
Some fungi in the forest.
I got time over the last couple of days to cast some wee pewter traditional cottages with chimneys - see above; as well as finishing 10 more leaves on stalks - see below.
The cottages are cast in sand that I have pressed moulds into. There are two sizes - 3cm long X 2cm high; and 18mm long X 18mm high - hence different containers to put the sand in etc as you can see below.
I usually heat the recycled pewter metal to about 750 degrees to allow impurities to burn off and give myself plenty of time to pour. Most times a small stream of smoke appears as the hot metal burns the oil in the casting sand.
As you can see above the cottages come out with sand and soot clinging to the metal. A clean with a fine brass brush gets rid of the sand and soot. A couple more photos of the finished cottages follow.
What is not to celebrate about this smaller sculptural piece (about 60cm wide X 55cm high) - hand formed recycled copper leaves, copper patina and rust on half of an old pulley wheel. See fully assembled piece below with a hard wood base.
The leaves are riveted to the mild steel stalks or stems with copper rivets - yes the stems will rust in the outdoors.
Couple of other process photos on the workbench.
And a photo at the front door in blazing sunlight.
A lovely addition to the Bending Series.
We are definitely on the road to winter - the mornings are dark when we rise to exercise as you can see from the photo above and below.
I almost did not walk outdoors this morning as it was threatening to rain - I'm glad I did as the freshness of new leaves showed that even with approaching winter there can be much life and beauty.
I enjoyed seeing healthy succulents our retaining wall; and the contrast between fallen leaves and healthy succulents.
Fragments of beauty in the darkness help to remind me of hope.
The finished boats are in the opening photo; and a couple of process photos below.
I'm making two sets of copper leaves: one set from cleaner meta; and one set from heavy and brown patinated metal from an old copper washing boiler. Photo of the ones from the cleaner metal is below - patinated and ready for final grind before going into DEP shop.
on stalksThe second set will become a Bending sculptural piece - with 15 leaves. Process photos follow.
Mixed bag of a weekend but good outcomes.
