Rainy Day

Looking back through my previous prints it became apparent that I could be giving a false impression of my home county. Whilst its true that we do sometimes get warm sunny days and blue skies, dotted with cotton wool clouds arranged in a convenient composition. Climatically Yorkshire does have more in common with Wales and the Lake District than with the South of France. More often than not we have grey skies and rain. So in order to re-dress the balance here goes....

First colour, an overall warm greyish tone with some white streaks which hopefully will suggest rain.

Colour 2.
Next colour is simply a darker tone of colour 1. Trying to suggest the break in the clouds.

Colour 3.
A slightly darker blue grey tone finishes off the sky and the river in the foreground, now to add some colour into the landscape.

Colour 4.
The first green. Although not a lot of this will show in the finished print. I'm trying to keep the tonal changes quite subtle as I need to give the impression of the flat light of a rainy day.

Colour 5.
A  pale brown for the muddy river bank and the reedbed on the left side.

Colour 6
A darker tone of colour 5 to add some texture to the mud and more definition to the reeds. The cutting and printing to get to this stage has taken 4 days so far. Another three but more likely four colours to go.