The Not Taken Vacation: Grundarfjodur

I broke my arm last Wednesday in Iceland. By Saturday morning at 1:00 a.m. I was home, having spent several more hours getting home. I was exhausted. And while I was still in shock the reality of not being able to have a vacation didn’t come home until to day. It is so depressing to think that I was going to be off visiting new places and having adventures, and visiting friends who live in Spain as well that I have not seen in quite some time.

I have decided to not give into this as it will be rather depressing altogether! Instead I have decided to be the armchair tourist or armchair traveler, and visit places that I would have been or would like to see if I was in some of these countries, I am also using voice to text to dictate this, and then correct the errors as I go along. It is a lot faster than trying to type with two fingers on one hand!

The first place I’m going to go to is a very iconic mountain called Grundarfjodur. I have always loved the shape of this mountain because of the curves and the angles and its barren landscape. It’s located somewhere on the western side in the northern area of Iceland but on our trip we would have never seen it so I decided that I was going to paint it as if I were. There are a lot of public domain photos of this mountain and I have used one of those to get a sense of it.

To do these sketches I decided that I would use my watercolor kit that I put together for traveling, and use only it exclusively. It includes the brushes and paints and pens and pencils and a sketchbook and various odds and ends. It will be very limited in color and technique but it will be a fun experience altogether.

So with no more ado, let’s go ahead and take a peek!