Mountain sketches

I painted my first Himalayan sketches in Nepal. They are expressive sketches made with sweeping movements of the palette knife and the brush on 20 x 30 cm photo printouts. These trial digital printouts feature gradations of grey or the so-called white balance resulting from adjusting a digital camera to different light qualities (colour temperature), which evoke techniques of measuring recording elevation. In the contour tinting of maps, such colours as green, yellow, red and brown, usually in a graduated scheme, are used to depict elevation, the position of mountains, uplands and so on. In ‘Himalaya Sketches’ the graded grey colour scheme created a backdrop for the painted story. They were displayed linearly as a series of consecutive images in the manner of a photo-documentary.