September 24, 2014 - Posted by Cara Lockhart Smith | Art, Photography, Uncategorized | clouds, photograph, scottish borders, sky, walking
I’m Cara, and I live in Coldstream, in the Scottish Borders As well as writing and illustrating books for children I have recently been painting on canvas, in my octagonal studio (aka The Tardis) which inhabits a corner of the vegetable garden. My work for children has been published in several countries, and translated into different languages. My favourite form at the moment is the picture book, but I have also had published poetry, children’s novels, and illustrations for the work of other authors, and have worked extensively on projects with children. I go out most days with my camera and create blog entries from the results. Some of the pictures I take will be used as background material for the picture book which I am working on at the moment. My son Matty set up this WordPress blog for me, and it has added a dimension to my life which surprises me. It is also interesting and inspiring to read the blogs of other people from different parts of the world, and to look at their sometimes fascinating pictures.
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A lot of great stuff going on with this sky Cara!
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Hi, Mary, and thank you. I was wishing I had a camera today as we were coming back from Berwick – the clouds were amazing, layer upon layer, all different. I have difficulty painting skies, so it is nice when a photograph comes out in an interesting way. There is something about Border skies, I never tire of looking at them, and I think this has grown since I started taking photographs. Probably you have the same sense of infinite variety when you do your series of paintings of landscape elements.
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Beautiful!
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Thank you so much for your comment, Wendy. Usually my blog entries are in sequence, but I came across this rather out-of-character shot whilst I was culling my old photographs, so as not to overload the computer. It isn’t an obviously brilliant composition, but there was something about it I liked, especially as I couldn’t remember taking it! You do get some amazing skies in the Scottish Borders; now that September is nearly over they have started to get interesting, which makes up for the fading of the leaves and flowers.
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I love it. It looks so calm yet something’s brewing off to the background.
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