Here’s a view of Burrastow House, Walls, Shetland, as you enter the drive.
There was a lively wind. Those clouds looked like that, and kept changing. The small island on the right is the Holm of Burrastow. The hills behind it are the island of Vaila. Here is work in progress.
Then I drew another view, from higher up, on a mound above the road.
Here is work in progress and a view of my sketching location for picture 2: a chair perched on a hill.
Pen-and-ink stage 
Sketching location 
Sketching location 
Preliminary sketch 
Checking the perspective
Both pictures on a block of Saunders Waterford 300gsm watercolour paper, “hot pressed”, 12 inches by 9inches. The yellow edging you see on the work-in-progress is masking tape. I put it round the edges for several reasons:
- It enables me to hold the picture safely without leaving thumb-marks
- I can write annotation on it, specifically “eye-line” and the heights of things.
- When the picture is complete, I peel it off and it leaves a nice white border, which makes the picture easier to frame.
To see the comparison between the pen-and-ink and the colour, use the slider in the image below:
Jane Sketching 