BISHOP HILL At Sunset | Perth & Kinross, Scotland | Painting Water Droplets in Watercolour | Ep43
Hello & welcome along on this walk! If you're new here - my name is Sarah and each week I head out on a walk with my faithful companion Jack Spaniels, to explore somewhere in this beautiful country of Scotland and hopefully find something to paint back in my studio at home.
Today we are climbing a hill - something we haven't done properly in a while! I love all walks - on the flat, through woods and along rivers. However, there is something very satisfying about climbing a hill, however small, that gives you a sense of achievement and really gets the blood pumping.
We are staying quite local and climbing Bishop Hill, known locally as 'The Bishop'. It's a small hill, with amazing views across Fife and Perth & Kinross, including Loch Leven just below it. We pay a visist to the loch at the end of the walk, to give our naughty spaniel Jack a bath after he rolls in something smelly...
Along the way, I spot lots of beautiful water droplets which look like gleaming gems. I have wanted to paint water droplets for a while now, so this was my perfect opportunity. I was also inspired by @TemiDansoArt's experiments with gouache, as she recently painted water droplets too. Thanks Temi for giving me the inspiration to try this! See the full painting process at the end of this video!
If you enjoyed this video and you haven't already, please do hit subscribe and check out my other videos - including the three special Skye episodes, where we explore some incredible Scottish scenery. Join me again next week as we explore somewhere else in Scotland and look for painting inspiration...
SHE WALKS:
'The Bishop' Hill (1512ft / 465m high)
Distance Walked: 6.3m / 10.1km
SHE PAINTS:
Total Painting Time: approx 14 hours
Materials Used:
Arches Watercolour Paper
Windsor& Newton 'Cotman' brushes in size 00 & 6
Dyffle Watercolour Pens
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Jack really wanted another throw. The walk was so relaxing and beautiful. Gorgeous water painting!
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Shari! Jack really wasn’t ready to go home haha! We threw the stick for him so many times, but it’s never enough for a spaniel 😅
@martiwillis1848
Жыл бұрын
He almost didn’t come back! But he is the best boy so of course he came when called.
Lovely walk, spectacular views, beautiful sky, amazing painting! Thank you Sarah!
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Kristin! It started out a bit dull this walk, but the skies cleared so beautifully 😊
Thank you, for taking us along with you to such beautiful places. Thanks for the beautiful artwork as well, what a great talent!!
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Debbie! So glad you are enjoying my videos 😊
@dhgreene31
Жыл бұрын
@@shewalksshepaints 🙂
Wow, great vlog, painter, accompanied music & Jack Spaniel! Blessings to your family 🤗💕🇨🇦
Absolutely fantastic painting.
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!! 😊
SO love the water droplets on the oakleaf painting! Absolutely gorgeous!
You were right, the views are celestial. How lucky we are that you have taken us along for this hike. Scotland is beautiful. The purple mushroom was interesting. Jack sure did have a lot of energy stored away. The painting, again you show us another technique, the creating water droplets. Just lovely. Thank you Willie for your beautiful cinematography . 🥰🐕🇺🇸
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Guadalupe! It was a beautiful afternoon on the hill and Jack definitely burnt off his extra energy!
😻😻 Thank you Sarah for including a map in your video,it makes it easier to visualize where in Scotland you are👍Thank you so much for sharing your walks with us and thank Willie for the beautiful drone shots they are breath taking 👍😻😻
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
You’re welcome Lizzy! I had been meaning to learn how to animate a map since I started the channel, but finally made myself do it 😅
New subscriber! Found you from your Skye channel. Fellow plein air painter living on the opposite end of the U.K. but equally inspired by the landscape! Love your content! 😊
your a very clever girl and so talented with the brush and paint. I love watching you do those masterpieces. Stay safe love you all.
The views are spectacular. I love these walks. I feel like I am there with you. I get to visit Scotland’s hillsides without leaving home. Thank you so much for taking us with you. Donna/Northern Michigan/USA
What a beautiful walk. It's funny you mentioned your ankle because I still think of that when I see you going up and down the steep places you go. I'm always impressed with it, and how well you're able to maneuver after a relatively recent surgery. Thanks for the update, I'm glad to hear it's healed so well. My daughter's dog rolls in every nasty thing she can find too. What's up with that! I'm glad you didn't have to ride home with Jack smelling that bad. 😉 Your leaf painting (and photo for that matter) is just amazing. It really is beautiful. Thanks for taking us along. 😊
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Dogs will be dogs - they just love the stinky things..😅
Remarkable! Both the beauty around you and you fabulous painting! So enjoyable to watch! Please be careful and stay safe! ❤❤
Such a beautiful video Sarah. Those sunset views were amazing! Leaf painting was outstanding. Best wishes as always, John.
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thanks John! So glad you liked it 😊
Ah how many times I painted from the bishop. A lovely area. peace
Beautiful skies, stinky spaniel and one of your best paintings Sarah, what more could anyone want? Thank you again for taking me with you and very glad your ankle is healing so well, just take care.😊
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Jane! So glad you liked it 😊 We wouldn’t change Jack, even when he gets stinky…
Love these videos as well…. So relaxing and enjoyable, almost feel like I. On the walk with you ❤
Stylistic realism of a truly lovely subject - well done!
Closing in on 2k....well done
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Aww thanks! I’m so excited to reach it - I’m hoping to get there before the end of the year!😊🤞
Love the oak leaf with water drops. Beautiful x
This was a fun and beautiful walk. I love the purple mushroom and the leaf with the water droplets. You did a great job painting the leaf Sarah! ❤🍁😎
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Penny! I had a lot of fun doing this painting, although I think I was seeing spots (or drops..?!) by the end haha!
I love the leaf painting - the details really pop - beautiful
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Ah thank you so much! 😊
How wonderful to have healed up so well that you can walk so far and run down that big hill! You captured the magnifying properties of the droplets so realistically. I forgot to read the credits to see Jack’s title this week, but I’m pretty sure it must have been “Smelly Boy” or something like that.😂
@oges74
Жыл бұрын
Stinky McStinkerson 😂😂
great walks and views... painting is stunning as always x
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!! So glad you enjoyed it 😊
That was a refreshing walk I must say! It was amusing that Willie didn’t show up until more than half way through ( in silhouette only). Smelly Jack Spaniels is such a good boy. I really appreciate your painting as I used to do a lot of illustration during and after art college.
Another wonderful walk. I love seeing Jack having such a great time, too. The leaf painting is just gorgeous. Great job!
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Jack had THE BEST time. Sometimes I think he rolls in smelly stuff on purpose, so he gets to go swimming too…🤨
Love the way the droplets pop off the page beautiful x
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Lisa!! I was hoping they would 😊
A wonderful walk and paint 😊 thank you.
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! 😊
I would have still given my dog a warm bath, as soon as I got him home. Swimming alone may not have gotten him clean. Your wet oak leaf turned out beautiful. There are two White Oak trees next to my home. Today's wind put their leaves on my back steps. The wind had already removed the rain we had early this morning. Not all oak leaves look the same. There must be something special about your oak leaves.
good thing the cows didn't have any calves 😝 great drone shots! well done droplets 😀
Beautiful photography and a wonderful painting.
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I was glad that Willie let me borrow his iPhone on this walk - I needed a good close up of those leaves!
Delightful
Beautiful out there as always. Amazing to see a purple mushroom! Love the turning of the seasons color. Oh no on Jack rolling in something stinky. Why do dogs like to that. LOL Nice view from the summit. Your painting came out great. Your a really good artist. 🎨
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
We wish we knew why he does it (although fortunately it’s not that often) or we would know how to stop it haha! Just a dog thing we guess
Hi Sarah. You and Jack spaniel have a special connection. What would your hikes be without him ? Thankyou for your informative view of Scotland . And l am in we of our talents. Oh to be young again…..
Thanks!
Hi Sarah, just discovered your channel from your other new channel of Life on Skye, but I am so enjoying your walks, watching Jack zoom around (it's so joyful) and your paintings (which are absolutely lovely). Your channel is just so relaxing and beautiful. I have been to Scotland twice and am planning a third trip next June. I want to move there so bad and be able to take those hikes you take. Your channel just brings me so much joy. Thank you.
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Aww thank you so much!! There will be plenty more walks to come in the new year 😊 I hope you get back to Scotland very soon!!
So very pretty there. ❤️ Jack is a super dog!
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Sherry! Jack is the best dog! Even if he does get a bit stinky sometimes 😂
Ahh, stinky Jack! You did a great job of those droplets!
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Ahaha yeah he wasn’t stinky for long though after his dip in the Loch!
WOW !!! That is an awesome painting, Sarah !!!
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Jeannie!! 😊
Amazing!!
This is the first of your videos I’ve watched. Came to you via Living the Skye Life. I love your watercolors. I look forward to watching all your past projects and to future ones as well.
That painting is amazing!
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Aww thank you! I had so much fun doing this one, although it was tricky to work out how to do it 😅
Lovely subject choice for your painting Sarah. Those droplets are magical. Seeing that ring of mushrooms reminded me (Sue) of the rings we used to find as youngsters playing in the country in the south of England, many years ago!
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! I love Fairy Rings - I’d love to find one with Fly Agarics. That would super cool 😍
Hi, another lovely/delightful autumnal walk,, I very much enjoyed your windy, cool hike while sitting in the air-con and looking out at a tropical scene. Thank you for sharing the endorphins, :) :). It seems you have succeeded with the droplets, love the magnification of the veins through the drops of water. Happy days, have a great week.
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Cate! That sounds like an amazing juxtaposition - tropical scenery and winters Scotland 😍
Wonderful and I once had an Old English Sheepdog she was fond of rolling in the stinky stuff like Jack what an ordeal to get her clean after. Oh and this one really is a shower curtain. Well done again.🤗
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Richard! That sounds like a nightmare - Jack hates baths but he’s at least quite small and manageable 😅
Aren't you supposed to take a rock up to add to the pile at the summit for good luck? Love the show, Jack is an absolute treasure.
Another lovely video. I love Sunday evenings watching Sarah and then Willie. I love to see Jack too but this time I’m glad it’s not smelly vision. My daughters cocker is exactly the same for rolling in smelly things 💩
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Ahaha - beware the day that KZread introduces smellovision 😂 He was not popular on this walk!
Another beautiful walk and a awesome painting, looks like actual water drops on the leaf it really pops. Take care and thank you for sharing 🙏👍❤️
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Chris! So glad you enjoyed it 😊
You are an amazing artist 🎨🖌️
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Aww thank you so much 😊
Beautiful painting
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
Lovely painting Sarah - really interesting looking with the water drops on it. Love the angelic singing at the end there for the ray of light through the clouds - I find myself doing that too (internally of course) when I catch sight of that!
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Haha! The choir did a much better job of it than me. Gotta love sound effects 😅
My sweet lord!! Take me away!😊😢
Your leaf painting is very beautiful. I do similar things with felt tip pens, but, having seen your work, I'm going to try watercolours! Thanks for sharing. It's so refreshing to see such delightful things on KZread.
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Jan! So glad I could inspire you 😊
Lovely walk and stunning painting. I finally found something that is not totally adorable about Jack. Mine has yet to roll in anything smelly. Knock on wood!! Thanks Sarah, Willie and Jack (yes I do think you are still adorable Jack).
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Aww yeah - Jack was not popular when we got back to the car 🤦♀️ Fortunately he never seems to roll in anything too…wet 😬 However, before I knew him, apparently he once rolled in the remains of a dead hedgehog and Willie thought the smell would never leave 😂🤢 We still love them though, despite their faults!
@bonnerdebbie
Жыл бұрын
@@shewalksshepaints Certainly do!
Our Jack would roll in things and then would be disappointed if we didn't praise his wonderful new smell. *sigh* I miss Jack...
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Aww that sounds exactly right. Sorry to hear you’re missing your Jack 😢
Haha stinky boy Jack 😵 stunning scenery on this walk. I received your calendar in the post today, can't wait to have it up on the wall soon
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Brett! Jack was definitely in the doghouse on this walk 😂
I would say well done if a couple of dips in the loch remove his well rolled in smell…it usually takes us shampoo and scrubbing to get our lab sweet smelling after her blissful encounters with stinky unmentionables. Lovely walk, beautiful oak leaf. Thankyou
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Ahh there were a lot more than just two dips in the Loch! Fortunately Jack seems to prefer the lesser of the stinky things he could roll in, but he still needs a good dunking afterwards and some doggy dry shampoo when he gets home!
Sara, that's called dog calone
William Blake light effects
Jack (I almost said Willie!), you aren't supposed to roll in the cow poop! I guess that is marginally better than eating it though. Blech. 😄
My dog would seek out fox poo and roll in it, it stunk! 💩😁💗 x (nice boots Willie)
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Ah nooo - fox poo is not good! Jack tends to be drawn to deer and sheep poo which isn’t the worst, but we’d still rather he didn’t do it 😂
Oh Sarah, I'm so sorry for being late to view this video. I got news that my Multiple Myeloma has returned after being in remission for 11 years. So it's back to blood test, doctor appointments and long drives to the clinic. My husband has made good strides in his water coloring. He's now on a new anti-tremor medication and he has stopped shaking! So he is now trying the water drops! So I showed him this video. Hope the moving and house setting is going well. And hope all are well and happy! Don't fret about me, I will be fine. Just need to get started on the new chemo.
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Aww thank you Mary! Don’t worry at all - these videos are for you to watch whenever you want to. Sounds like it’s been tough for you both recently - I hope you are both feeling well and having a lovely festive season. Hopefully I will be back with more walking & painting adventures early in the new year 😊
I bet if you could put a paw odometer on Jack, I bet he covers over 75% more ground than his parents per trip!
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
We agree! Someday we will work out how to do it - imagine seeing a map of his many paths!
Have u climbed Benarty or walked Devilla or Blairadam forest
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Hi! I have done Benarty a few times - I actually did a video there back in March I think! I will have to look up those forest walks though 😊👍
Thanks for another wonderful painting. Thank you so much. Somehow I don't see the artist that you said was listed. Could you let me know her shows name . thanks Suzanne Schube.Bye for now😀😁😀😁😀😁😀😁😀😁😀😁😀😁😀😁😀😁😀😁😀😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Hi Suzanne! I put it in the video description, but not my pinned comment oops!! Here is the link: youtube.com/@TemiDansoArt She does incredible drawings and paintings too 😊
That is not a hill! 😂😂😂
I dont want to be critical, because I really enjoy your site. However, I find that you speak a bit fast and sometimes your words seem to either slur or become a bit mishmash sounding. Sorry.
@shewalksshepaints
Жыл бұрын
Sorry about that! It’s a well known trait of where I’m from in England to talk very fast 🤦♀️ I will try to slow it down in future 😅
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