SUCH A DREAR DAY?????

What an excellent idea. We have had mist, rather, fog for the last two days. I haven't seen what it is like yet. Atmospheric drawing. Time for a coffee and a sketch before the hordes awake.

Thanks Gudrun... That is just what i am doing.... Still in my P J s .

it has been like that here too, dreich ! A very descriptive painting, Sylvia

A very evocative sketch Sylvia, this dull and damp weather doesn't inspire me to paint at all so I've started knitting hotwater bottle covers for Christmas presents instead!

Like that word Jenny ... :Dreich...very descriptve , I will adopt it. Hot water bottle covers...! Very creative .Christine. Thanks every one for kind comments.

My husband is Scottish, Sylvia, that is one of their good descriptive words, find myself uttering it too often these days

That is a lovely little watercolour and it reminds me of a Finnish poem where two old crows are sitting on a fence next to some fields and the weather is cold and miserable. They sit there for a long time and at the end of the day the other says more like to himself: it's raining, it's autumn.

Satu... That is lovely... i have just had a chuckle. , yes it is definitely a day for profound crows..

Crows are rather profound - I'm fond of crows; they seem to be getting bigger round here, too; great raggedy birds, chasing off the buzzards. This painting just about sums up a particular type of weather that we've had too much of lately, but you've found a beauty in it that we don't always notice or appreciate. By the way, surely there's a good Welsh word for "dreich"? My lot came from Caerphilly, where there weren't (I think) a lot of Welsh speakers; some of my uncles had the accent, but not, sadly, the language. But YOU must know!

We've had a drear day or two too, but you have given your sketch lots of life with the crows swirling about. I try to keep away from putting birds into my pictures as they end up looking like pteradactils flying in the sky :)

Sylvia, I do love your 'of the moment' atmospheric sketches/painting. Your mood is in every stroke of the brush and flick of the pen....(if you used a pen for the stubble) I love it!

superbly simple and evocative - great sketch