Ice textile ideas

While trying to do something creative each day I seem to be focusing in on the frost and ice at Wedholme Flow. I suspect I may work towards a larger piece and am currently experimenting in adding wax into the work, as I like the idea of the wax being like the ice - cacking and breaking and obscuring what is underneath...the final image shows a piece I shall chop up and dip entirely into wax - well it saves the ends fraying! 

The moss.

Detail.

My sketch.

Abstract interpretation.

With dripped wax ...

The piece that will be chopped up and dipped into wax. 

Buttermere colours

What a beautiful day! The light made the fells gleam.

The light coming through Scarth Gap.

The clouds echo the skyline....

Just nice!

Strong light...

..and closer...

Strong shadows.

..and as we returned the light changed so you could see the slight covering of snow on Brandreth and Grey Knotts. 

Patterns on the moss

 There were some super patterns ...lines and textures...today.

Wedholme hoar frost

After yesterday's ice - hoar frost. The dogs loved it! 

A bit of a shock for the catkins! 

When you appraoch the reserve and the Teasels are covered in frost - it's a good sign! 

Frosty.....

Bounces....

And some scenery.....

 

Ice on Wedholme

A cold morning with ice and frost so an 'atmospheric' walk on the moss, with the highlight being a fog bow. For information on formation click here . They are also known as 'white rainbows'. The patterns in the ice were spectacular too. Very little in the way of wildlife - just a Stone Chat and a Reed Bunting. 

Frosty Bracken.

Still some redness in the vegetation.

Ice.

Patterns.

'Atmospheric'...

..and more patterns...

...and a Fogbow. 

Mersehead RSPB

We'd never been to  this reserve and it's really nice - very diverse - from wet woodland, saltmarsh, merse to beach.

Barnacle Geese...and below.

Woodland walk down to the hide. 

View from the hide of Criffel....plenty of teal, shoveller and pintail.

Nuthatch.

Bullfinch.

Looking towards Kippford.

Reflections.

Fragments of shell with forams (single celled organisms that build a shell) ...but we'll need to look at them under a microscope...

A potential Snow Goose that turned out to be a leucistic Barnacle Goose. 

Cockles.

Cockles, Tower Shells and Tellins.

Witches Butter Fungus.