Crinkle Crags Complete

  The work on Crinkle Crags, one of the Classic and popular Wainwright fells is now complete. Comprising of eleven seperate sketches this fell has been a challenge and a joy to do. Every drawing reminds me of great days out on the fells where I can recall the adventures of the walking whilst being in the studio.

Crinkle Crags from Pike o' Blisco.

All of the sketches for Crinkle crags can now be found on the website.

Working my way along Crinkle Crags.

 Another of the Wainwright in Colour fells, this time Crinkle Crags. AW drew this ridge from quite a few different angles but then he did rate this as one of the best ridge walks in Lakeland. there have been a couple of challenges to doing these sketches, firstly, the landscape is very rocky and the idea is to put over this effect in painting without drawing every single rock. Secondly, the ridge basically runs east/west which means that from mid-morning to early afternoon the sketches are either directly into the sun making harsh lighting or directly facing the sun making a flat light effect on the crags etc.

The fifth crinkle seen from the main crinkle.

The bad step.

By visiting the website: http://www.theteesdalegallery.co.uk/ you can follow the continuing progress of the rest of the Crinkle Crags sketchs and the project in general.