Sketchbook - autumn extra

Autumn is lasting for ever. The colour changes are in slo-mo and drinking it all in is so easy. You couldn't possibly miss it. So my sketchbooks have had one or two more splashings and jottings, aided by a lovely poem that I found:

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Counting-Out Rhyme (Edna St Vincent Millay)

Silver bark of beech, and sallow
Bark of yellow birch and yellow
    Twig of willow.

Stripe of green in moosewood maple,
Colour seen in leaf of apple,
    Bark of popple.

Wood of popple pale as moonbeam,
Wood of oak for yoke and barn-beam,
    Wood of hornbeam.

Silver bark of beech, and hollow
Stem of elder, tall and yellow
    Twig of willow.

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Here are a couple of recent pages from my sketchbook inspired by the colours and shapes around us here and the poem above.

Again a layer of watercolour, a layer of coloured napkin or kitchen roll, dyed over time with moppings ups of paint, bits of scrap card, painted and the words of Edna St Vincent Millay, either scappily written by yours truly or put into Wordle (thanks, Margaret).