Ecologist and conservation scientist (emeritus prof.) in despair over inaction on climate change and biodiversity crises. Mountain-lover. Artist. Live in […]
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John Altringham
Mountain watching...
In the garden in June: wood mouse, zebra jumping spider, young robin and azure damselfly.
Watercolour sketches started yesterday and finished this morning. Changing light over the Sound of Sleat from Isleornsay, Skye.
#watercolour #landscape #mountains #Scotland #art
My afternoon art buddy, a ~6mm jumping spider examining the quality of the watercolour paper and inspecting the water jar.
That's a first - an AI art bot has just critiqued my watercolours. Favourably, but blocked nevertheless.
On this wet morning, listening to Lau...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wlRTM3y-qg
Wood engraving is primarily a black and white medium. Tonal variation comes from the density and nature of the marks. That can fail and an engraving looks flat. This was the case with Cir Mhòr and Goatfell, a scene that needs a sense of distance - aerial […]
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John Altringham
Trying out a new watercolour brush. It may well become a favourite.
We've had a little rain.
The geologist James Hutton was born in Edinburgh 300 years ago tomorrow. Two slices of Scottish geology I (an ecologist) have enjoyed studying. The Moine Thrust Mylonites at Faraid Head, Balnakeil Bay and lichens on a basalt dyke in Lewisian gneiss, Raasay.
#geology #JamesHutton #DeepTime #Scotland
