The path calls once more

So now we are a week back from hols and it is time to think, talk and do once again.

Here's some doing in the process of being done:

These are two studies for a folded entry page in the Kildare Notebook - did I mention that? This is project in its second year sponsored by Newbridge Library by which you send them €5 and they send you back an A5 Moleskine notebook; then you return this to the Library filled with whatever you want by a certain date (Sept 29) and the book becomes their property and goes on display in the library - the exhibit also tours - it was in Mary I for two weeks last year.
So anyway I am in the process of so doing( ie filling??!!) - here are a few sample pages:

  As you can see - as light and airy as so much of my stuff is - they'll probably give it back to me.
Anyway a bit of  challenge.

So, the holiday - well the first couple of weeks were a family affair in a house in north-eastern Spain and it was great fun with lots of time to draw and paint and of course take photos (more about that later):

 

Catalunya is on the verge of a referendum on autonomy from Spain and feeling is running pretty high

 

Part of the cathedral in Girona -this is a lovely city and this was my fourth visit - I would go back again tomorrow

 - while having a cup of coffee. - ink

The house we were staying in was old and had an equally old church beside it:

 

pencil,ink and watercolour

 

 not everything done was pretty

 

Another day we went to the seaside:

 

 

- in between the raindrops;  - pencil

 

For the last six days two of us travelled across the foothills of the Pyrenees stopping in very interesting and historic places and looking out of lots of windows.

 

 

beach at Hendaye - ink

 

 

 

People sometimes ask how do you pick a subject  -they don't have to be pretty or historic - just look at what's in front of you:

 

 

 spent a good part of an afternoon on that - pencil and ink

 

'industrial' works really well

 

Nor is everything realistic:

 

 

w/c and ink

 

ink and wash

 

The photographs were another matter; I took about three hundred and fifty and that was with the battery running down on the Olympus 300 (which required a lot more discipline and care in composition (more like using film). One thing that really gave me a laugh was that the other half is now pointing out ground art and saying 'have you got that' (its called brainwashing):

 

 

These were two of her choices

 

But I also saw these at a crossing of two narrow streets in the old city of Gerona:

 

 

- compass points, and this ideal of a river system was in the middle:

 

 

 one final one for now:

 

this was a 'door-step' outside a building,

I think I have enough material for two more volumes of Ground Art.