Sketching this week on the Mendips first at Crooks Peak then at Cheddar using my Pitt artist felt pens These use permanent pigment so colour will not fade like ordinary felt pens. I've used a double page of my sketchbook to get the width. I'm on the West Mendip Way walk, sitting on Wavering Down looking towards Crooks Peak and Bridgewater Bay with, in the far distance, the Quantocks on the left and Wales on the right. Closer on the right is Loxton Hill and a tiny bit of the far end of Weston-Super-Mare. The blue squiggles could be birds but are in fact accidents where the wind whipped the paper onto my pen, a hazard of windy sketching.
This is Lion Rock with Rose Cottage, The Cliffs, Cheddar in front. The Grade 2 listed Rose cottage and former shop has just been sold by auction for complete renovation so I wanted to get a sketch of its delapidated glory before it is transformed into a tea room like everywhere else.
Mind you I was sitting over a coffee in the cafe opposite to do this drawing so I can't really complain about tea rooms.
Mind you I was sitting over a coffee in the cafe opposite to do this drawing so I can't really complain about tea rooms.
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