The WITCHES ROAD | Abernethy Round Tower | Painting An Apple in Watercolour | Ep38
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.
As we head properly into Autumn, I thought it was time for another lovely woodland walk. This week we head to Abernethy - a beautiful historic village in Perth & Kinross. We walk along the Witches Road to Abernethy Glen, climb a hill called Castle Law and attempt to storm the round tower.
It was a beautiful sunny autumnal day and there was so much to explore!
We found some beautiful apples growing on a huge apple tree - hopefully not poisoned by the coven of 22 witches...I wanted to use this subject matter to start experimenting with a new watercolour technique that I haven't used before - wet on wet. See how I got on with it at the end of the video!
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SHE WALKS:
Abernethy Glen, Castle Law & Round Tower
Distance Walked: 4m / 6.4km
Lunch - Crees Inn, Abernethy
SHE PAINTS:
Total Painting Time: approx 9 hours
Materials Used:
Arches Watercolour Paper
Windsor& Newton 'Cotman' brushes in sizes 000, 00 & 11
Dyffle Watercolour Pens
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HB Jack Spaniel! You don’t look 49 In people years and your raw energy could power the whole UK! Cheers to you and your parents, who have apparently raised you well. Beautiful painting and wonderful drone footage
A big, belated birtday hug to Jack Spaniels, the bestest dog on the web. Thank you for showing Will. I think he belongs with you in these vlogs. Everyone knows he is there. And you are handsome, happy couple
Happy Birthday, Jack. Thanks for taking us along and sharing the beautiful scenery. Your apple looks so real. Good job. Please give Jack some birthday hugs for me. Take care.
Beautiful walk even if you didn’t go up in the tower. The detail on the apple is amazing, and I appreciate the explanations of your techniques. Sarah, you have a lovely accent, but I must admit that Willie’s Scottish accent is music to my ear. Happy birthday, Jack!
Happy 7th Birthday Jack Spaniels.
Happy birthday Jack Spaniels you definitely don’t act your age. Awesome walk and an amazing painting Sarah, never got to Scotland and it’s too late now so I watch with avid eyes every week.🙏🙏thank you. Take care, please give Jack a birthday hug for me and thank you for sharing 👍❤️🥳
Wonderful walk even without the tower. The Apple looked so good I had to grab one from the kitchen. Great drone footage Willie. Happy Birthday Jack, I am glad you had sausage for a breakfast treat. My food centric dog started barking at his food bowl and I looked at the clock (10:15) and told him he had a couple hours till lunch but he didn't quit so I walked in the kitchen and caught a glimpse of the clock there and it was 12:40, Whoops, he was right and I wasn't, so he got lunch. Thanks so much Sarah, Willie and Jack.
I'm so glad Jack had a good birthday and got to go for a walk and swim! I would love to request a sheep painting sometime if you get a photo you like. ❤️
happy birthday Jack xx great walk out sarah.. some beautiful colours to be seen.. wow that apple tree.. crazy amount of fruit. adore the painting.. great detail . xx
Another beautiful autumnal walk, a perfect day for a birthday walk. Happy Belated Birthday Mr. Spaniels!!! 🥰🥳🦴🍁🍰
Jack is such a handsome boy, the countryside is so beautiful, it's on my bucket list of places to visit. I really enjoy going along on your adventures. Thank you so much for sharing. Your art work is amazing. Amazing history.
Happy Birthday Jack! May you have many more happy days! Lovely day!
Epic, beautifully filmed video. Thanks Guys. Love the final apple painting! Jack really enjoyed himself! Cheers, John.
More beautiful scenery, I had to pause the video to take in the view from the hill fort location. I love old architecture, history and beautiful scenery. Scotland has it all, thank you for taking me along again this week. Cheers from the Eastern Shore of Maryland!
Yes, your shadow work is so great, makes the paintings come fully alive...enjoyable walk, too and be sure to watch the video so you can see the view we all got to enjoy from the drone over the tower 😂
Sarah, magnificent painting! The leaves look three dimensional and that you could just pluck it off the page. The apple is radiant and looks delicious. Wonderful hike and happy birthday to the dashing Jack Spaniels, you bring so much joy to me 🎉🎊🎂🍬🍡🧁🍭🧨🎁🎈
awesome day for you today, Sarah, and your awesome water colour paintings as always❤
Lovely walk Sarah. Some very beautiful farmland in that walk. Thank you! Happy Birthday Jack.
WOW Sarah. You are one talented girl, l am in awe. Well done and be proud of all your achievements , you and Jack and willie are an amazing team.
Thank you.
Hi, lovely walk in the autumn, I am there walking along with you, seeing the colours and smelling the loam 😁. The painting of the smooth apple with the gnarley branch and lichen is perfect. Thank you for this lovely video. Have a gòod week, enjoy xx
Happy birthday , Jack.
Thank you for being such a positive.
👍😎🇨🇦📷🐾Love the apple 🍎
Happy happy Jack Spaniels
I absolutely LOVE the out-takes Sarah! I think I was as disappointed as you were the tower was closed!
What a beautiful autumnal walk! As always, I appreciated the view and the history lesson. Hard to believe it's almost been a year already. I remember Willie saying in an episode of Dirty Secrets of Scotland that you had a channel coming and I knew I would enjoy it - and I certainly have!
Happy birthday Jack. That was a very beautiful Autumn walk. I especially liked the drone footage. Aww, too bad the bell tower was closed. 🍎
Beautiful walk, happy birthday Jack
Looked like Jack would not part with those sausages, well deserved, class entertainer!! Sarah, that apple tree you showed on that fabulous walk was the biggest I(Ian) have ever seen. Your painting of an apple was very life like. Tell Willie his drone photography is superb quality.
🎉Happy Birthday Mr. Spaniels! ❤
Another beautiful walk, hope you get to climb the tower in the not too distant future (keeping in mind not to go up when the bell is due to sound) and I do love the bloopers at the end of each video
When I was in elementary school, National Geographic did an article on the Witch craze of Europe. Especially in Germany, England and Salem Mass. My family was mentioned as we had "a witch" that was brought before a bishop in Nuremberg and then drowned. Strange how that happens in history. The apple looks like I could pick it off the page and bite it! What a great job.
Autumnal is a great word, & also my favorite season, despite the joy of watching new things growing in the spring.---I know I've said this many times, but Scotland is such a magical place. I've been to so many wonderful places, here & abroad, but Scotland doesn't seem like a real place. In our day & age of hollywood magic, Scotland always looks like a movie set. My brain occasionally has difficulty recognizing reality. Sigh. I've seen those round towers on our friends' driving tour of Scotland & Ireland. The difference being the openings were up high, so threatened peoples could climb up the ladder & pull it up inside afterwards.---An old lady friend of mine planted a Gravenstein apple tree & it would bear fruit ready for harvesting as early as May. Delicious apples! I wondered what variety you encountered on your walk.---Fascinating history of the Pictish hill.
I watch your Skye Life channel and only just discovered this channel. Much to my amazement to find you in the village where I live, very cool.
Maybe next year for the tower view…but, you did have an amazing view from the site of the old fort. The apple tree you saw was positively laden, and you probably had lots of shots from which to choose. The moss-covered branch and red apple are a great composition and a wonderfully realistic painting was achieved. Please don’t doubt your abilities…you are a very fine painter!👏🤩🌸
Sorry you didn't get into the tower, but I you did a great job saying "never mind" but conveying how disappointed you were! Great video as always. You guys are special.
Amazing to realise you were near to our 18th century restaurant called The Baiglie INN (It’s now a private home )at the roundabout coming from Glenfarg to Perth that you turn off to Abernathy …It was lovely seeing the views again and The Crees Inn is a great pub …..We live in Queensland Australia but my heart is in Scotland…..Great watching you …
Lovely video. Thanks!
i cant be in scotland so these vidios are the next best thing love the music!
Sounds like Salem Ma. I used to live one town away from Salem . Boy I miss being there..Love your show and your art work. I went to art school ( college ) .I was an interior designer.....for so many years.
Your work is just amazingly beautiful!!
Happy birthday Jack Spaniels!!! 🎂🎉 Still a puppy. Many apples there. Nice snack for the walk. Beautiful country out there. Autumn is my favorite season as well and recently had my birthday too. That is a tall tower. Sorry you weren't able to go into it. Very well done on painting the apple. Thank you for another great video.
Looks good enough to eat, great work!,
Just an idea with your excess paint swatches, when full use them to do reverse colouring pages where you use your imagination to make pictures out of the blobs. It's a really good way to give your creativity a push. Thoroughly enjoy your walks & nature/history talks & your artistic endeavours too.
oh my i love this time of year & really enjoyed your first autumn adventure. sorry 😔 you had to keep your feet on the ground this time around. happy birthday to my favorite fur face on youtube! 🐕🦺 🎉. can’t wait to get a calendar too
Its a great show....I didn't know you had a show till yesterday .
Love your detailed artwork
Thanks so much for the description of your artistic process. I'll be taking a class in watercolor this summer and have been a bit anxious since, although I'm good at drawing to scale, I have no confidence in adding color to my pen and ink drawings. Your videos have been giving me some confidence in how to add color to my drawings.
Oh dear, I could feel your disappointment Sarah! They need to check their website. A lovely place anyway and wonderful drone footage. Your painting is gorgeous, I love the how you captured the leaves as they were just curling at the edges. The outtakes made me laugh 😁💗 x
Happy Birthday Jack! I just knew there would be water involved somewhere in your walk when you said it was Jack's birthday, and that wee 'spa' he found looked ideal lol. Your painting was gorgeous, and that photo you took of the box of apples with all the red and green looked so autumnal (which *is* a great word!). I love walking with my dog Buster in Autumn, it's my favourite season too. The story of the 'witches' walking up that hill to their death, I found it very poignant, I bet you can feel the history there. I laughed at Willie in your outtakes 'I'm in the shot' 😂 .... and I think you had every right to be peed off when you looked online and it said the museum was open - when it wasn't! I wouldn't let it go either 😂 And your old job sounds so interesting, can you show us any of the places you worked and tell us about what you did? It would be fascinating. Thank you for another beautiful video, birthday hugs for Jack 🤗💛
Good stuff
Just discovered your channel and I'm enjoying it because I am also a hiker and watercolor painter, just beginning to find my style. This gives me inspiration and encourages me to keep going.
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Aww thank you Christine! I’m so glad you like my videos. Please do keep going! I almost gave up on doing watercolours too but I kept on and found I was improving 😊
Fantastic apple! The shadows do make a world of difference. The leaf curl, I just wanted to reach and touch the edge of the leaves. It was a nice walk even if you didn't get to climb the tower. The drone shots are beautiful. I love seeing fields from above. Thanks for sharing. Now, did those women really all sign their names to some list for this guy to find and accuse them or being witches? 🤔 lesson learned, don't write your name on incriminating documents.
Luv the countryside and your historical info provided as you go! Beautiful photography!!! Think you could sell photo cards or prints! Oh, and Jack is ADORABLE!!! so precious the way he cocks his head when you talk to him!
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Thanks Angie! So glad you liked it :)
Sarah that painting is amazing! Feel like you could just reach in and grab the apple for a snack! (And I'll bet the apples were left out by friendly witches - isn't there a theory they were just enterprising women who threatened men and their businesses, like the women who brewed beer back in the day?) P.S. Love the head tilt from Jack Spaniels - it' so cute when you feel like they're trying to understand you!
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It is a beautiful piece of work. I wish i could do as well a painting.
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Thanks!!
My first viewing of your channel Sarah and I found it most enjoyable. It was the Skye videos that brought me here. Is the background music all Willie's work? btw you are a very talented artist, that apple looks amazing!
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Aww thank you so much! Glad you liked it 😊 Yes - all the music was made for me by Willie! He’s very talented 🥰
I paint in goush.....just add white to watercolors... That's the same.
what kind of dog is Jack? He's beautiful!
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He’s a Sprocker spaniel! A mix of Cocker and Springer - so we say he gets the best from both breeds (but also double the crazy..!)
Happy sausage day Jack Spaniel oops sausages mummy please
Is that Willie Scott on guitar??
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Always! He does all my music 😊
Sarah, So Jack Spaniel is about 45 or so in Human years according to research, but that is misleading because Dogs have been bred for health and longevity, we are not, and most animals generally eat more intelligently than we do. So their genetics, exercise and diets allow a healthier, albeit shorter like than ours. Here's hoping Jack becomes a healthy Octogenarian or more,in dog years Cheers, Rik
I for to tell you I think it was 19 girls and women were accused of witchery and breaned at the stack.
Plan ahead it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.