'All mine!'

Lovely subtle tones another great painting Fiona

I love limited palettes and this has worked very well with just three colours, also love the title. Thanks for your comment on my latest.

This is great - the limited palette really works with this. Splendid. By the way having read it in one of your replies, I searched out the Diary Shop. Sumptious journals!

beautiful. love the limited palette.

Confident ,relaxed and atmospheric - really like it.

Thank you Glennis, Debs, Anne and Gudrun your comments are gratefully appreciated. Gudrun, the journals are gorgeous aren't they....I love mine. Thanks again.

Excellent stuff Fiona. Lovely movement in the sky, and a simplicity to the whole thing.

This is spectacular (and I really mean that!) - it looks so professional and just totally right.

Really captures it - I'm quite envious of this one Fiona

I really like this Fiona -it is so alive -particularly impressed with the sky. Well done

... it would help if I could spell properly when required! Sumptuous! I blame "toddler brain".

A great landscape Fiona which really conjures up atmosphere - I like this alot! Your solo journey has started with aplomb!

Mick, Thea, Michael, Carol, Jane thank you all very much for your continued encouragement. I thought that perhaps I hadn't put enough in the picture.......but if you like it, I'll leave well alone. Gudrun, I hadn't noticed the spelling error......will you be treating yourself to a journal?

Nice one Fiona, good sense of distance and a very restrained painting, you don't need to have lots of activity in a painting.

... I hope to.

Many thanks Stephen for your advise, I suppose a painting can be about what you leave out as well as what you include.

Well, that is just perfect Fiona. Fabulous sky, great foreground and majestic Suilven loose and not overstated. You are on a roll :) Off up the east coast to Brora next week then back to Inverness for a concert. Runrig, are you a fan?

Hi Val, would you believe that I painted this on the way home from Brora last Friday, well actually I had originally gone to Dunrobin castle. After the castle we had a run up to Brora and walked up the beach. I had intended painting something there but we were a little hungry and there is a fabulous fish & chip shop on the high street in Golspie, so ended up there, eating fish & chips on the beach. I did a pen & wash sketch of the pier there, which I may post, it isn't very good. This view is a couple of miles before Ledmore junction with Ben more Assynt on the right of us. When we see Canisp, Suilven, etc we know we are nearly home. Like Runrig?! Love Runrig, although I prefered the first lead singer, got all their albums but never been fortunate enough to see them. On a trip to the North coast about a month ago to a place called Farr, I found out what 'Runrig' means. there's a small museum there and it has this very old map of the area with all the crofts marked out on it and on the map around the our skirts of the crofts were undulations marked as 'Runrigs'. I asked the curator if this meant the farmed areas of land, and it is. It's like furrowed land, something on the lines of in-by land that crofters used to plant tatties and turnips in. It may have nothing to do with it of course. Thanks for your comment Val, much appreciated.

Thanks Fiona, I now know where the name runrig comes from and we'll definitely be trying that chip shop in Golspie :) I remember going to one in Helmsdale, several miles north of Brora, a few years ago that was run by an eccentric pair of guys who I presume used to be in the theatre judging by the amount of photos on the wall of themselves with lots of ageing thespians. Strange surroundings but lovely food. Donnie Munro was the first lead singer of Runrig, his voice gave me goose bumps (but don't tell hubby) Saw him live in Stirling with his new band a few years ago, brilliant.

Agree with Thea - the word "spectacular" is very apt here, Fiona! Superb!