Lynne Forrester, Artist: Landscape Sketching in Charcoal

Continuing on my slow-sketching charcoal journey from the sketchbook completed earlier in the year (read the blog post here), I commenced this one from where I left off in Lochbay on the B886 here on the Isle of Skye. The air was a little cooler as autumn was just announcing itself to the island, and was lovely to feel as I paused in each passing space along Lochbay, down into Stein and then up out of Lochbay towards the war memorial.

Like last time, I kept track of each location with the what3words app – and most of this series was again carried out on another pair of crutches as my accident-prone-ness resurfaced and I injured the other leg. However, I completed this sketchbook during my September 30 Day Creative Gathering, so there are brief blog posts for each sketch. You’ll find them if you click on each location reference below, or you can select Sketchbook Project from the topics menu at the top of my blog and all the posts will be available there for you:

1. intent.unloads.bolts

2. ovid.printer.tightest

3. chew.this.pats

4. headline.tearfully.noisy

5. responds.back.crumb

6. superbly.spinning.sleep

7. plugged.clinking.cove

8. fulfilled.household.piper

9. hits.necklaces.such

10. unwound.organist.debut

11. define.applauded.disco

12. amplifier.haystack.giggles

13. chainsaw.magnitude.distilled

14. movie.inflation.pegs

15. distanced.sculptor.locator

16. luggage.serenade.ranking

I’ve sent the sketchbook off to The Sketchbook Project at the Brooklyn Art Library where it will be catalogued and digitised in due course.

It’s lovely to be sketching in this island nook and contributing towards a sketchbook collection with other artists all at the same time!

Ardmore Point is getting closer  – with Clett still making a stand on the left. This is the last page of this sketchbook, I’ll continue my slow-sketching meander through Waternish when the next one arrives.

Charcoal Landscape from Lochbay, Waternish, Isle of Skye

(what3words location: luggage.serenade.ranking)

The Sketchbook Project is the world’s largest collection of artist sketchbooks and is housed in Brooklyn, New York. Many are digitised and available to view from wherever you are, and the actual sketchbooks are often taken around the States on tour of educational establishments. Continuing from my first sketchbook (Fairy Bridge to Lochbay), I’ve started from Lochbay and am sketching from the passing places along the single-track road leading to Stein and Dunhallin. Each location is noted with the what3words app, and you can see the location of today’s sketch above.

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Making my way along the road and looking up to see Waternish war memorial.

Charcoal Landscape from Lochbay, Waternish, Isle of Skye

(what3words location: distanced.scupltor.locator)

The Sketchbook Project is the world’s largest collection of artist sketchbooks and is housed in Brooklyn, New York. Many are digitised and available to view from wherever you are, and the actual sketchbooks are often taken around the States on tour of educational establishments. Continuing from my first sketchbook (Fairy Bridge to Lochbay), I’ve started from Lochbay and am sketching from the passing places along the single-track road leading to Stein and Dunhallin. Each location is noted with the what3words app, and you can see the location of today’s sketch above.

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And then the sea came back into view – along with the beauties of Clett, Mingay and the North Uist island range.

Charcoal Landscape from Lochbay, Waternish, Isle of Skye

(what3words location: movie.inflation.pegs)

The Sketchbook Project is the world’s largest collection of artist sketchbooks and is housed in Brooklyn, New York. Many are digitised and available to view from wherever you are, and the actual sketchbooks are often taken around the States on tour of educational establishments. Continuing from my first sketchbook (Fairy Bridge to Lochbay), I’ve started from Lochbay and am sketching from the passing places along the single-track road leading to Stein and Dunhallin. Each location is noted with the what3words app, and you can see the location of today’s sketch above.

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Looking up to the crofts as the road steers away from the coast a little.

Charcoal Landscape from Lochbay, Waternish, Isle of Skye

(what3words location: chainsaw.magnitude.distilled)

The Sketchbook Project is the world’s largest collection of artist sketchbooks and is housed in Brooklyn, New York. Many are digitised and available to view from wherever you are, and the actual sketchbooks are often taken around the States on tour of educational establishments. Continuing from my first sketchbook (Fairy Bridge to Lochbay), I’ve started from Lochbay and am sketching from the passing places along the single-track road leading to Stein and Dunhallin. Each location is noted with the what3words app, and you can see the location of today’s sketch above.

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