What a lovely evening it was, settling down in the glorious sunshine and drawing outside in the church car park opposite Aberystwyth Castle.
I thoroughly enjoyed the art, and the warm air and sunshine. It was also my first run out using an outdoor collapsible chair that Pauli bought me just before our holiday. This portable delight was bought purely to encourage me to get out and about with the art. Better still, the cup holder in the chair, was the perfect place to stand my Inktense Pencils, whereas my Inktense Pencil zipped wallet (a brush wallet snaffled up for the pencil carrying purpose) formed the perfect table to rest the watercolour paper on while completing the art. I spotted this particular view a week or so ago. Photographers often photograph the Castle Keep full on, whereas I found this side view (with obligatory seagull in situ) to be the perfect angle for a coloured ink and wash drawing.
When I wrapped up at the Castle, I found a spot on the benches at the top of town and started an image of the Clocktower and Starbucks building. I tried this scene as a Mono-Print with Black Pigment Liner and Artist quality Soft Pastels about a year ago, and it just didn't work. So maybe this image is about removing the demons that appeared upon my previous failed attempt. In fact that attempt was so bad, that just now I visited my Mono-Printing Album on my Tablet to check the date, and found that I had never taken a photograph of that particular mixed media work. Now that's not like me, and it's not the type of behaviour that I would encourage you to adopt. Nope, it's best to embrace all of our artistic attempts, whatever their merit, and try to learn and develop from them all.
