When it comes to subjects for my art, I am always drawn to faces and figures or monsters or anthropomorphised animals. What I really don’t tend to touch upon is botanicals, still life, or landscapes. I decided, therefore, to challenge myself to produce a landscape in the orange section of my Rainbow Art Journal. Having grown up in Fife, I thought of the orange pantiles that adorn the roofs in villages like Culross – a result of the tiles initially being imported as ballast. I grew up in the post-war new town of Glenrothes but always enjoyed visiting the fishing villages of the East Neuk so I decided to illustrate a harbour village in my art journal. There is zero verisimilitude in my illustration and I didn’t use any photo references so my buildings are all a fusion of memory and imagination. Landscape is definitely not my thing but I really enjoyed creating this page. I don’t even care that the scale is bonkers, including monstrous seagulls. Maybe I will force myself to do landscapes more frequently.
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I love this imaginative townscape!
Thank you. It was really fun to create.
You should do more landscapes! I don’t care about accurate scaling, I like the creative interpretation.
Thanks, Mara. I think I’ll continue to dabble with landscapes every now and then.
Have you ever thought of working for a stamp company? I can see this .
No, I never have. It would be cool to have one of my ideas turned into a stamp though.
Love this landscape. The orange tones make is sunny and vibrant.
Thank you very much!
This is gorgeous. As you say, generic, but could easily be a Fife fishing village. I love the monstrous seabird on the tiny boat,
Thanks, Anabel. I don’t think I have the dexterity to have created seagulls to scale so Godzilla Gulls it had to be.
I absolutely love this!!!! Yes, please do more landscapes from your memory/imagination!!! I hear you about preferring faces and animals – that’s me described. Only rarely have I ventured into landscape. Recently I’m trying the still life genre – after having found a way to make it ‘mine’ aka interesting to me. Seems that you’ve found a way to make the landscape genre interesting to yourself! And to very good effect!!! I love the Godzilla Gulls and the “bonkers scale” as you call it!!!!! More ‘bonkers’ and ‘odd scale’ please!!!!
Thanks so much, Sue! I’ll definitely keep trying landscapes ever so often. Still life is something I’ve always struggled with too. Maybe I’ll eventually push myself in that area too.
And I may have to try a landscape… Lol! Always good to keep challenging oneself. 🙂
There are places on the internet that make stamps from your designs. Just saying. As to landscape you are missing a whole category of subjects you have a feel for and I know because I see it right here. It’s great.
Thanks, Claudia. I appreciate the encouragement. It’s good to push myself and do different things.
I think it’s perfect. It needs to be in a kid’s book about a crotchety old fisherman or a seagull family or a tugboat who is tired.
Thank you, Kerbey. I love those ideas. Maybe the old fisherman is crotchety because he has the seagull family as neighbours.
They need to quiet down and stop pooping on things.
I love it 💗
Thank you!
I really love this – the bright orange tones and crisp lines make for a brilliantly striking landscape. You should definitely do more!
Thank you!
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