A few weekends ago I went to the Lake District, I think its fast becoming my favourite place to visit. We were lucky enough on Saturday to have really sunny crisp autumn weather so it was ideal to do some sketches (and a bit of stop motion animation too)
Tarn Howes
The gate to the Wordsworth garden, Grasmere.
A little animation at Tarn Howes.
Sunday the weather was yuck, so we took the dogs for a walk and visited Hawkshead to the Beatrix Potter gallery.They had an exhibition celebrating 100 years of Peter Rabbit which displayed all the original ink drawings that Beatrix Potter did for the book.
As a little girl I was obsessed with Beatrix Potter stories to the extent where I would dress my cats up in dolls clothes and try to teach them to walk on their hind legs (lets be honest I still do that now!) and I have always loved the ink drawing illustrations so it was great to see them for real.
Using ink and watercolor is something I've really been practicing recently so after the visit to the museum I had a go at drawing my boyfriend's bull terriers, Chester and Molly (I didn't forget to draw Chester's eye, he lost it from a bad case of glaucoma.)
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