Cadair Idris, But From Over Here

Two for Fairbourne

Two digital sketches of Fairbourne, Wales...

Tryfan West

Tryfan West

Borth-y-Gest vs Porthmadog

Borth-y-Gest II

Porthmadog

Fault Line:Chile

Earlier this year I stumbled upon a photo of a volcano, and was very taken by the colours on offer in the image. I did a quick study of it with my ageing DS. It was a fun little exercise, but then I decided to look up the volcano via Google Earth. When you put a tick in the volcano box, in Google Earth, you get a very quick and easy visual cue of where those saucy tectonic plates are acting up the most.

From my random encounter with Irruputuncu - the initial volcano I happened to stumble upon - I decided to follow the fault line down the boarder between Chile and Bolivia, and continue doing quick speedpaints of the consecutive volcanoes in order. Nothing more than a amusing little task to chip away at in my spare time.

Now, the boarder between Chile and Bolivia is not that substantial, both in terms of mileage and volcano activity, so it wouldn't take much more effort on my part to see this little whim through. However, once you hit the boarder with Argentina, the stakes suddenly become markedly higher. We are talking hundreds of volcanoes that slowly slink their way down to that oldschool mariners nightmare that is Cape Horn.

Even I could finish up the Chile/Bolivia boarder volcanoes with a spit of gumption. A fun little challenge completed. But what if I crossed the line and started on the Argentina boarder volcanoes? Well, if I'm honest with myself, I will never know. :)

 Irruputuncu

 Olca Paruma

 San Pedro

 San Pedro II

 San Pablo

Putana

Maenofferen

Y Garn... Again

Mynydd Moel

Regaining a taste for PS painting sessions...

DS Landscape Dump

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Carneddau

Nant Ffrancon

I really should start posting more often. -_-

Imaginary Landscape

Switching from real landscape to imaginary concoctions - while still trying to maintain a grounded sense of realism - after so much time spent with real world observations, is something I thought would be much easier now. But it turns out to be much harder. Something inside me tells me that is a very good and positive thing (maybe my time exploring landscape has actually taught me a thing or two), yet the frustration is still fresh so I cannot comment objectively right now.

DS Stragglers

A few DS scribbles that were missed, skipped, or flipped.

DS Trefor Scribbles

Some DS scribbles to accompany the previous entry, although I should have posted these first.

Goch & Ddu

Old Gods

A slight change of plan. I wanted to continue with my St. Peters church explorations from last year, but my scanner has died. I've ordered a new one, but in the mean time here's another speedie...

 

Tryfan & Mawddach

DS Dump (Again)

Y Garn

Another Welsh landscape that started life as a quick plein-air laptop study. Probably the last one I'll go back to, although I might post the rest of the thumbnails from last years sessions as a form of closure.