Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith
Ink sketch and colour wash of a scene in Magaliesburg in my Moleskine Nature sketchbook
It's the first of October, heading for mid-summer here in South Africa and we've had no rain yet. Normally we have the winds in August clearing up old growth and our first spring rains early in September, but the wind has been blowing right through September, seemingly blowing the clouds back to whence they came from.
I'm having to water my garden every day, we've had some very high temperatures, but nothing seems to give life like even just a couple of millimetres of rain...
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I really like what you did with the bands of colors going across the scene. Your landscapes have a beautiful abstractness to them in the way the composition flows between the sections of land, foliage and sky. Beautifully done!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Katherine!
DeleteThis is a lovely sketch.
ReplyDeleteI hope the rain has come now.
Thank you very much Sue! Yes, we had a bit of rain on the 8th October, too little, only 4mm, but who's complaining? It has left the earth beautiful and fresh!
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