Category: Watercolor

The Not Taken Vacation: Port Sunlight Village

i was so looking forward to visiting Port Sunlight during our brief stay in Liverpool. While I have enjoyed the Beatles since the 60s, I will say I opted for gardens and museums as I prefer the countryside! However, I expect the foul weather which forced the trip we were on to bypass Dublin carried into Liverpool and rather than a bright spring day, we would have needed galoshes and slickers! So, a rough sketch of a rather lovely bridge and buildings, playing a bit with some things gleaned from my building drawing class.

When I do these not-taken-vacation sketches, I confine myself to my limited supplies I would have been using onboard. And limited room. Elements of the colors I brought with me annoy me no end, meaning no good violet at all. The same with pinks or alizarin. I may visit in my imagination to buy some extra colors….or not. Let’s see where all this takes me!

The Not Taken Vacation: Lambay Island in the Irish Sea

Sailing across to Liverpool, or into Dublin, is Lambay Island seen? I would imagine so.

In imagining my non-taken vacation, I have been looking at a lot of maps and finding all sorts of fascinating things! I have always loved maps and globes, so perhaps my broken arm and subsequent repatriation is not such a tragedy after all.

This is a dreadful scan, but I do rather like the painting itself. One edge of the island is seen, along with sail boats. I would enjoy being onboard one of them in a good stiff breeze.

Do read the link above – Lambay Island seems to be a very nice place to visit.

The Not Taken Vacation: Port at Dublin

It turns out that because of inclement weather, our ship could not land in Dublin. What did they do? Sail past in the wee hours? No idea.

I looked up images of Dublin Port or Dublin Harbor, and here we have what I think must have the commercial part. Cranes, large ships, breakwaters, piers, and who knows what else . . . .

Foxglove

Not seen on vacation, but I seem to be splashing around aimlessly and it is time to do a bit more than just an ink and wash sketch. Watercolor has been on my mind, so I gave in. Not really happy with this…paints are probably in need of replacing as well as the paper is for play. Still, at least I did more than blob….but with this fracture I am so afraid of falling! And that promotes blobbing….