After some great spring weather we had snow on Monday and Tuesday! I had to go to Glen Etive , driving through Glencoe the landscape was completely white .
Glen Etive is a beautiful valley overlooked by dramatic mountains. Some of the last part of the Bond film Skyfall was filmed here . By coincidence the family of Ian Fleming (who wrote the Bond novels) owns the estate .
Today we had more wintry showers interspersed with bright sunny periods. Painting the sketch above conditions changed moment to moment. When I started there was a huge black cloud over Glen Nevis obscuring most of the Mamores whilst the foreground was in sunshine, and the sky on the left was blue . Later the mountains revealed themselves and rain started over Fort William. The view is from Inverlochy the site of a battle in 1645. I placed my sketchbook on the little monument. The inscription reads:
He either fears his fate too much
or his deserts are small
that dares not put it to the touch
to gain or lose it all.
James Graham 1650
Beautiful paintings, Mark! You have an intrepid and adventurous soul :)
ReplyDeleteLove the inscription, too. A good message to us all to be willing to dare.