Friends have been telling me what a marvellous dialogue Hello Every Sunday is, and I agree. If it wasn’t for this I would not have tackled the landscape of Matera, I would have thought it far too difficult and avoided it. It has been challenging drawing these images, first small in my sketchbook and then larger in my A3 Moleskine but it has been so great to push myself into unknown terrain.
I have used watersoluble graphite (which you can see on the right side of this first picture). It gives me more control than ink and the slight blurring needed for this particular landscape. The highlights and the cloud flowing in from the right onto the centre has been done with white pastel. The clouds are the powder from sharpened graphite, you can see the pointed graphite from sharpening also on the right. The challenge was to get the buildings rise up organically from the landscape adding to the compacted mass of textures.
