Decided to take myself on a little solo trip to somewhere quiet (/as silent as I could) . Wouldve been good to go somewhere like the peak district but I don't have a car n trains are expensive (nationalise the railway))))
Decided on going on a walk to Ilkley Moors. Packed myself a pack of dates and my camera and sketchbook.
some film photos:
it was really refreshing to spend time alone in the landscape - good for the old soul. Nature like Ilkley is not 'silent', but for me personally the sounds experienced here (wind, birds, water flowing) are synonymous with silence? This is me taking the idea of silence as something contemplative and tranquil, and that to me is the sounds of nature. I took some voicenotes on my phone of various sections of the sounds I heard, and then when I got back I played each 3 times and drew to the soundbite, found this little task really beneficial, a way of recording something non visual, visually? They could look nice as a pattern, maybe the inside cover of my book?
(I tried to embed the soundbites into this blogpost but I'm not sure how to do that)
some more Ilkley drawings
I haven't drawn in this way, delicately and concentrated in quite a while, definitely a visual language I think I want to keep exploring in this project even if it is out of my comfort zone a tad.
Solo field trips are v v beneficial I'm glad I did it, much better than drawing hills from my crummy laptop screen
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