The Isle of Skye provides an endless amount of inspiration. Something about the light, fast moving weather, colors, and variety of landscape makes it the perfect place for any artist and photographer. Some friends were visiting from Germany and we decided to stay on Skye for a few days. Since they are not artists, I thought it would be challenging to keep up with my daily painting, but luckily there were opportunities along the way.

Here are some highlights from our days on Skye.

Hiking and Sketching at the Fairy Pools

Hiking and Sketching at Quiraing

Exploring Coral Beach

When we had bad weather, I painted from our rental at night. Thankfully our views were incredible! I painted the same view a few times on different days.

The weather changes very quickly on Skye – here’s the same view within minutes, and it continued to go back and forth.

After returning home and saying goodbye to my friends, I took one day off to recuperate, then got back to work. My last two days of the week were fun study days.

I participated in the Warrior Art Camp demo by Gia Dong which was really cool.

And spent some time studying green fields. This time of year the sheep have lambs and the fields are bright green and yellow. I love driving around in April and May to witness the colorful patchwork.

And that wraps up week three! It was so much fun but very tiring. I learned a lot as usual! In the next post I’ll share the week 4 recap.

You can watch video of these beautiful locations in the first half of this video: