Sketching

While on the bus, I have been trying to do some rapid sketches to capture the landscape and note colours and shapes. 

This sketch lists some of the sites we visited today.  The stones of Stennis stand amid the heather on a small rise above The road.  We also visited the Brodgar ring and Skara Brae -  a site where changing winds uncovered a Neolithic village  that had been buried in the sand dunes. We also visited Ophir, a Viking site, where there are remains of a medieval round church and a drinking hall which would have been used by a Norse earl of Orkney.  

Some highland scenes. Wonderful greens and the Colour of the gorse and rhododendrons which grow wild here. 

Drove by Bamburghq castle the other day. Grey stone, green hedge, but the most enormous orange poppies by the side if the road.

Each sketch is less than half a minute since the scenery changes at every turn in the road.  Wonderful!