Recently
I’ve been experimenting with watercolour sketches. One of the things that
strikes me about paintings is how very different the same painting looks as
light conditions change over the course of the day. I first noticed this when
house-sitting for a couple in Perth, Western Australia, who had a very large painting
on their living room wall. It was a beautiful painting, but the dramatic
colour-change between day and evening added something extra – as if it were
several paintings for the price of one. This is less noticeable in art
galleries, where the lighting conditions are stabilised.
This
is a rough sketch (time constraints!) I did yesterday, looking across from
Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island towards Bamburgh Castle on the north-east
coast of the mainland. Photographed with the lights on yesterday evening, and
in daylight this morning.
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