Cuillin, Cloud and Gale

Cuillin, Cloud and Gale
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Lucky you Bill, what a shopping trip. Love the misty/low cloud effect flowing down over the summits.

Thanks Fiona - yes, this is a pretty amazing place!

You have certainly got the feeling in this painting Bill, in all the years I have been walking and climbing I have only managed one trip to Skye, you are so lucky. I think the structure in the rock faces is really well done as is the cascading cloud, I can feel the wind and smell the hill in this painting, excellent, from a mountaineers point of view, just what I would have on my wall.

Thanks so much Malcolm! it was inspired by seething cloud pouring through the pinnacles of Sgurr nan Gillean. I hadn't picked up on Fiona's post properly - the cloud was being blown up, rather than flowing down the mountain! Regrettably, I'm not up to such giddy heights myself, these days..... Nevertheless, Skye - and the Black Cuillin in particular, are truly inspirational.

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13/04/2015
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Having moved to the Isle of Skye, I though I'd better start painting it! I was lucky enough to spot this view when going shopping - I pass this mountain every time I go to the Co-op! 30 x 22cm, Arches Rough

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Bill Cook

I'm a retired scientist (fisheries biologist), with a lifelong hobby in photography, but also a long term interest in drawing and painting. The first watercolour sketches that I can remember doing were of fungi, whiling away the time in front of the telly whilst waiting through the night for…

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