Post Tagged with: "Mountains"

Mountain Stage, Tour de France Colouring Page Created by Jonathan Chapman

Tour de France Colouring Page

A new sporting addition to my colouring page collection! Featuring a touch of lycra and a good steep incline. The event itself is held later in the Summer, but with a little Spring sunshine it seems like everyone is getting out on their bikes at the moment. So here is […]

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Monday Inspiration Bluebell Woods - Illustration by Jonathan Chapman

Mountainside Commission

I have a nice peaceful mountainside commission to share with you. I liked the reasonably straightforward composition on this one… it has a lovely stillness to it with a big open blue sky.There’s plenty of interesting colour tones surrounding the building though with silvers and browns at the front of […]

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Kilimanjaro Tanzania - Illustration by Jonathan Chapman

No. 24 – Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Mount Kilimanjaro or just Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano in Tanzania. It is the highest mountain in Africa, about 16,100 ft from its base to 19,341 ft above sea level. Kilimanjaro is a large stratovolcano and is composed of three distinct volcanic cones: Kibo, the highest; Mawenzi at 16,893 ft; and Shira, the shortest at 13,140 ft. Mawenzi and Shira are extinct, while Kibo is dormant and could erupt […]

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Grand Canyon Illustration by Jonathan Chapman

No. 16 – The Grand Canyon

No.16 of my 2018 world series challenge is the Grand Canyon. Grand Canyon National Park was officially designated a national park on February 26, 1919. Named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, the park is located in northwestern Arizona. The park’s central feature is the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, which is often considered […]

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Rigi Blues Illustration by Jonathan Chapman

Singin’ the Rigi Blues

I have a straightforward landscape to share with you today, an unabashed colour study of Mt Rigi in Switzerland. It’s a subject you’ll have spotted plenty of times in my recent work! But as with Turner’s famous depictions of the ‘Queen of the Mountains‘ I find different things to work […]

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Lake Tekapo New Zealand Illustration by Jonathan Chapman

No. 15 – Lake Tekapo, New Zealand

No.15 of my 2018 world series challenge is Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. Lake Tekapo, Lake Pukaki and Lake Ohau run along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin on the South Island of New Zealand (the others are ). A popular tourist destination, Lake Tekapo is the second-largest of these parallel lakes and covers an area of 83 square kilometres at […]

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