Tension Lines

After walking all morning in a beautiful place with Cadair Idris, Wales, in the distance, I decided to get my sketch book out. It felt very daunting to draw the landscape in front of me, so I thought ‘Just start’! I liked the foreground of the leafless hawthorn tree with the mountain behind – not quite the top of Cadair Idris as it didn’t fit onto the page! I wondered what the effect would be to draw the distant mountain outline in pencil and the tree in bold fibre-tipped pen – the media itself creating a tension, pushing one line back and the other forward. I was pleased with the outcome. For most of the time I was drawing, it was actually a case of looking closely at the landscape and my hand worked in symmetry – without me glancing at my mark-making. I think that added to the dynamism of the picture. Simple but effective.

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