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Help! In next week's class we are going to paint a landscape from a photograph. We can sketch it on A3 paper before the class but we've not to paint it yet. I had to take three photographs into class and the tutor picked one of them for me to paint. The one he picked is a picture of a small bay, shingle beach, drystone wall, a couple of houses and outbuildings and of course hills and sky. Oh and there are a couple of small boats pulled up onto the beach.


I knew the photograph was taken in Shetland a few years ago and I suspected it was Hillswick. I emailed the photo to my mother and she confirmed it is a picture of a house at the end of the beach and it is Hillswick.



I spent ages last night trying to sketch it. I just couldn't get it at all. I managed to sketch it on smaller A4 paper but my attempts to sketch it out on the larger sheet were absymal. I just couldn't get it right.

I suppose that's what the class is for - to learn how to do something!