Fidra in the Firth
Keeping colours apart can be just as important as mixing them together, take Fidra in the Firth of Forth for instance. .
Gilbert Summers
5/3/20251 min read
Fidra from the shore by Yellowcraig, East Lothian (cropped!)
Fidra, from the Old Norse for ‘feather island’ is an RSPB bird reserve. It is said to have inspired the map for Robert Louis Stevenson’s work ‘Treasure Island’. (But then, there are other claimants!)
A slightly wintery visit recalled here: pale sunset off to the north-west, lighthouse shining out by late afternoon.
This is gouache - fast-drying (sometimes too fast) but handy for stopping the blue shades and the yellow-ish shades in the sky from doing their own mixing thing - which mostly means mucky greens.
That's all that need be said! Oh, except that the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds own Fidra. Nearby Lamb Island is owned by Uri Geller, of all people. No, really: it's today's fun fact. Explains why my paintbrushes kept bending when I painted this...