a very foggy calverley grounds - 29th dec

Yesterday I went to visit Calverley Ground with my chosen design to see what will work, what wont- i found it really helped visiting the site again if not only to realise the scale again! We get so used to looking in plan form on A1 that you need to keep visiting the site to truly see if the design will work or not.

However yesterday was extremely foggy- it was a horrible slow drive there and back but the park had more people in it than i had ever seen there before!

-lots of puppies for Christmas in this town!

When i stood at the entrance of the park i could hardly see over to the other end, it was quite magical really. i am planning to go again once the fog lifts.

Here are some of the pictures i took yesterday:

bits from my everyday sketch book:

This year i have been working on my black and white sketching and trying to stick to what i actually see as im always prone to using bright colours and abstract what i see! I like them , they do need more time and patients but i think its worth it as its a fantastic form of recording a place with accuracy and emotion combined.