A painting in oils of Sharp Edge Blencathra Painting in mixed media

Sharp Edge Blencathra  First wash of water colour
78 x51 cm

This is one of many drawings and paintings I've made featuring Sharp Edge which is a favourite English Lake District walk of mine. Especially so, in a cold snowy winter when the rock freezes and the grass slopes become ice fields. There's a real feeling of danger  that you can never forget. When your back down the valley in the pub that's what you remember. What you never remember is the tired legs and heavy breathing as you slog to the bottom of the ridge. Then once on rock and ice the feeling is electric and very exciting. Of course it's not Alpine as lacks the height but the steepness of the edge is there and it could be a section of an Alpine or Scottish Mountain ridge.

This drawing was started some time ago last year when the grasses were getting to that deep ochre colour and contrasting nicely with the pale grey of the volcanic rocks, the sun still high enough to cast deep shadows onto the steep rock walls of the main mountain behind Sharp Edge.

Sharp Edge 1000 x 90 Oil on Canvas

This oil painting which faces downwards into the valley was made about three years ago and found its way to a Gallery in Windermere and thence elsewhere. Ive reposted it here so that I can point out the prominent grass shoulder on the right, this is the same shoulder  that's pictured at the bottom of the  drawing at the top of this post.. 

As with all the others works I will attempt to remember to post regular updates. Many thanks by the way for all the comments to date.This wil eventually join its same size partner on the wall at the Lingholm Kitchen.