'Assynt 2011, Quinag sketch'
‘Assynt 2011, Quinag sketch’, Graphite pencil on paper
This is one of the quick sketches I did while up in Assynt and Sutherland during the last couple of weeks. In the past I’ve always used a black drawing pen, but decided this year to use a soft graphite pencil instead. The marks are I guess slightly more fluid and less scratchy and I like the quick feel about this little drawing.
Quinag is a big and quite complex hill with a number of tops and three main ridges. From all sides it looks impressive and I’ve started to think about doing a large drawing or painting based on this hill ….perhaps doing it along similar lines to the large drawing I did of the Dom in Speyer last summer. In this piece you may remember, I tried to draw the cathedral from different positions as I walked around it. I’ll try to post up a few more of these simple sketches soon.
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