A walk along the streets of Granton today, on the North side of Edinburgh. I had to stop and capture this beautiful carpet of colour in front of me. The autumn leaves are covering most of the pavements in the city just now and it makes for a wonderful, if sometimes slippy walk into town.
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Beautiful colours
Stunning colours falling from the trees recently, the hues of the leaves are particularly bright and strong this year. I can’t think of a better city center place to see this than in the Meadows park.
I was there sketching this scene yesterday, armed with an ink pen and some watercolours. Get out there and soak up the colours before they all turn to mush 🙂
Autumn colours
The Sketcher family had a great afternoon playing in the leaves at the Botanics yesterday. The twins are toddling around now and were loving running through the leaves and rolling about. So good there’s a dog free place to play for them, safe they aren’t going to roll in any muck.
We brought some of the leaves back and they made collages for Granny.
We got the leaves out again this morning, now dried out and crispy – and a lot messier to play with!
Black fineliner sketch with a watercolour wash. Available to buy as an original or one of 100 numbered prints.
Leaves in water
A busy day in the office today and it was great to get outside in the fresh air for an hour at lunch. Even better to use the time sketching. I sat outside the Sottish Parliament by the water pools and drew these Autumn leaves floating on the surface. It was a challenge to capture the difference between the leaves on the surfacse and those that had sunk to the bottom. How do you reckon I did?
Below is a photo I took on location to give you some scale of my sketches, all of which are available to buy as limited prints (from £12) or as the original (from £48). Email me HERE for more details.
Therapy
There is something very theraputic about sitting in a peaceful garden and looking at trees for twenty minutes.
Concentrate on the many beautiful colours as the low light flickers through the leaves, notice how the dark branches weave their contrasting path through the sky. Let out a huge sigh and wonder in the fact you are only a few feet away from the hustle and bustle of the Royal Mile.
I tinted the sketch on my PC, its the nearest I could get to the autumnal foliage.
Changing colours
Autumn has certainly arrived in the suburbs of Edinburgh, as these beautifully coloured leaves lying on the pavement show.
