Exploring CASTLE GLOOM in Dollar Glen, Scotland + Painting a Fiddlehead Fern Shoot
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 เม.ย. 2022
- 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.
This week we explore the beautiful Dollar Glen - a steep ravine filled with lush green plants and cascading waterfalls.
At the top, we find the dramatic Castle Campbell, or as it was originally known - 'Castle Gloom' - a fitting name for a rainy, grey Scottish day!
The strange alien shapes of the emerging fern shoots caught my eye today and I took some photos to take back to the studio to try and capture in watercolour. Watch to the end to see how I got on!
If you enjoyed this video and you haven't already, please check out my other videos - including the three special Skye episodes, where we explore some incredible scenery. Join me again next week as we explore somewhere else in Scotland and look for painting inspiration...
SHE WALKS:
Dollar Glen & Castle Campbell, Clackmannanshire, Scotland.
Distance Walked: 3.6 miles / 5.8 km
Coffee & Cake @ Mona's of Muckhart.
My Gear:
Scarpa GTX Walking Boots
Berghaus Lightweight Fleece
Acai Midweight Trousers
Lowe Alpine 'Aeon' 25L rucksack
SHE PAINTS:
Total Painting Time: approx 10 hours
Materials Used:
Arches 300gsm 100% cotton Watercolour Paper
Windsor& Newton 'Cotman' brushes in size 00 & 000
Dyffle Watercolour Pens
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Thank you for taking us along. What Amazing place for a walk, just breath taking for sure. Be Safe
Thank you Shanna! I love it there - so happy to share it 😊
Thanks for taking us along Sarah, stunning from start to finish. Thanks to Willie and Jack too!
Thank you Debbie!! So glad you liked it 😊
Those fiddleheads remind me of some plants in an episode of Stargate SG1. This painting really seems to pop out in 3d - exellent work on the shadows, brilliant aerial shots from Willie and yet again Jack tidies the countryside one tennis ball at a time!
Thanks Dave!! Yeah they are such a weird sight, just popping out of the ground everywhere. I love them 😊
As always most enjoyable!!! Love Jack’s enthusiasm and the videos! 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Watching your painting take form is it’s own magic. Such skill, and patience are a wonder! Thank you!
Another beautiful, peaceful walk. Thanks Sarah. And kudos to Willie for the excellent drone footage of Castle Campbell!
Thanks Steven!! Willie did great with the drone today 😊 So glad you liked the walk!
Those Fidel ferns are such a sweet trick in nature! You have a wonderful eye for all things in nature never lose that desire to explore what Nature serves us! 💕💕💕💜💜💜❤️❤️❤️
Thank you Linda! I think I will always be looking out for the beauty in nature 😊
With all the steps, either made of stone or wood, I couldn't stop thinking about the people who put all those in yikes hard work.
Jack had a good tail beat at the end.
Yup - lots of hard work went into it. Imagine bringing the stone up to build the castle..!😅
The sites and sounds of the waterfalls are mesmerizing! Your video is better for anxiety than any breathing exercises! 🥰
Jack has the best life with you!
It is true. Very magical. Thanks so much!
Thanks Kristin! So glad you agree 😊
Those waterfalls are stunning.
They really were - I couldn’t help clambering down to look at them all!!
What a beautiful walk! I love that we have Willie's music and the sounds of water and bird song. And of course Jack was his energetic adorable self. You mentioned earlier that you wanted to paint fiddleheads and this time you could. Lovely painting with such detail. Thanks Sarah so much.
Sarah, I absolutely love all of the beautiful details that you include in your videography. You are sharing a part of my culture and my history and this particular video really grabbed my heart ❤️ because I am a descendent of the Campbell clan. I live in the Appalachian mountain chain here in the United States. The terrain and plant life/foliage is so similar. But we don’t have the NC500 or those gorgeous loch views from your cottage. There are a lot of Scots- Irish families here and one of the main reasons that I adore your channel as well as the channel that you have with Willie about your life on Skye is because I’m also a painter, I love horticulture, gardening, walking, and travel. I’ve learned a lot from you on every one of those topics. And watching Jack’s antics is just another bonus. That’s my daddy’s name, also ❤ I’ve recently been sick and have really enjoyed doing a deep dive into your channel, watching the older episodes that I had missed before I found you. My husband and I are really enjoying them very very much. Cheers to a trip to Skye via the NC500 one day! It is our dream! Blessings to you, to Willie, and to sweet little Jack Spaniels! ❤
Another joyful video , thank you Sarah , Willie and jack 😀
Another fun walk and another beautiful painting. Thank you so much. I really look forward to this video each week and enjoy it each time. :-D
Aww that’s so lovely to hear!! 😊
Fiddleheads grow in Maine!! We have loved them every spring !! They are a seasonal delicacy!!
Once again a fantastic painting. You bring your subjects to life. I love how you explain your technique as you are creating your painting. Unbelievable detail. Can Jack anymore adorable? 😄 He is such a lovely dog and just makes my day see him with all his excitement at carrying a stick or going in water. Great filming Willie. 🥰🐕🇺🇸
Oh what a lovely place. It is so clean and pure. I do so love fiddleheads, as I grew them in my garden when I was younger. I would pretend the faeries lived among them.
Thanks Sandra! They do look like something out of a fairytale don’t they?
Enjoying with my second morning coffee after a brief time in my own garden clipping back last year's fronds from the new growth of the sword ferns. Such a lovely surprise to find we were recently admiring the same new fiddleheads! Love your channel and look forward to a new walk and painting each week. From Nanaimo, BC, Canada. Thank you!
Aww that’s lovely Daphne - so glad you liked it 😊
This was truly a magical walk. Thank you Sarah and Jack.
Thanks!! So glad you liked it. 😊
I enjoyed seeing the castle and the beautiful scenery.
Jack is always fun to watch.
Thank you Penny! So glad you liked it 😊
My husband and I had a wonderful discussion on the beauty of the landscape and why someone would build so high up in such an isolated spot. Loved it. Thank you. Great painting. You are very talented. Mustn't forget Jack, fabulous companion. He was outstanding, lol.💗👍
Thanks Wendy! So glad you and your husband enjoyed it and it sparked a discussion 😊It’s an amazing place for a castle - easily defended, lots of visibility (great views) although I don’t envy the people bringing the supplies up to the top haha!
Wow...this is a wonderful. So enjoyable to watch. Thank you for sharing. Big like here my friend👍👍👍
Anyone interested in Scottish Castles gets my sub. Thanks for sharing your trek around Dollar Glen. Youve captured it brilliantly. I'm lucky enough to have flown Castle Campbell a few times. Magical place. Well done add another subscriber to your count 👏 👍 👌
Lovely to see you in what’s a very special place to me. Love your painting and am so impressed at your drawing from the eye! Thank you for sharing! 🤗
I can see why that is a favourite walk of yours, the greenery, the water and of course the amazing castle 🤩 such detail in the fern shoot, you captured it wonderfully Sarah
Thank you Brett!!
Precious Angel! Love ❤️ from Maine!! ❤
Another entertaining and relaxing Video. Well done team Scott
Thanks so much Ivan!!
Thanks!
Hi Sarah really interesting video ,brought back a lot of memories back in 1961 I walked up there with my sister and mam and dad it was open to the public back then I remember alot of those exploring some of those foot paths which where in a bad state some quite scary for an eleven year old lol thanks for booting my memory into overdrive ,and once again some amazing art work n jack's tail never stopped wagging ❤
I know I sound like a broken record the stonework is fabulous stunning scenery!👍🏻💕💕WV🇺🇸
Thanks Lynette! I don’t mind hearing that more than once. So many beautiful places to explore here 😊
Beautiful countryside walk with amazing streams, castle. Who could ask for more, then add a beautiful painting on top and you get awesomeness. Take care and thank you for sharing 🥰👍👏❤️
Thank you Chris!!
Prachtig! Mooie frisse lente kleuren .
Liefs RINI. Uit NEDERLAND
Great walk, great castle, great art...and Jack the Great too! :)
It really is so beautiful! 😍 I’m sad you couldn’t bring us in the castle this time, maybe another time you’ll be able to. I don’t think there is a happier dog in all of Scotland as Jack! You can feel it even through a video! 🥰🥰
Aww thanks Amy! Jack was loving it, although he really wanted to go in the castle too. We have been in before and they do allow dogs, but there are some repairs needed to the stonework inside, so it’s closed at the moment. Hopefully soon we can take you inside for a look 😊
Wow Sarah lovely video. Painting & music brilliant. Wayhay. Adverts, well done. x
Haha thanks John! Glad you approve. It will help us keep going with the channel for sure 😊
Beautiful painting, beautiful walk. Love your videos
your hikes are truly awesome. so beautiful! your fern and it’s details were captured perfectly. i once had flash fried fiddlehead ferns & still dream of eating them again.
Stunning scenery as always and beautiful painting, also as always. 😁
Another magical walk.. 😁👍.. Thankyou.
Thanks Rob!!
Hi Sarah, I have a video on a playlist (viewable for all) on my TH-cam channel about Fibonacci and the Golden ratio. I’ve always been fascinated by that beautiful, mathematical order that I believe can only come from a designer, God. I really appreciate watching you find your inspiration and then being able to see you paint it. Thanks for taking us with you. Gorgeous set of paintings! Stay blessed! 🥰
the bird song is wonderful at the start of the video :) ... amazing views from the castle. the fern painting is great ... nice job xx
Thanks!! It was lovely - can’t get enough of the birdsong at this time of year 😊
I am a member of the Stewart Clan. One of my ancesters moved from Ireland to Campbelltown and married one of the Campbell women. I have more research to do.
Ah great links to have in your family! I bet there’s a fascinating history there 😊
One day I was driving west on route 70, a military highway through the Pine Barren Area of New Jersey.
I saw some tourist busses parked alongside the road in an unpopulated area..
I stopped and walked over where the people, a good 40 or more, where picking something and putting
them in paper bags.
I asked what they were harvesting.
It was Fiddleheads!
They were of Asian descent and I feel it was there culture, probably agrarian that led to the bus charter
and the picking.
Some of our local supermarkets sell them in season.
I want to thank you, Willie and Jack for the memories:)
Cheers,
Rik Spector
Thanks Rik! I didn’t realise they could be edible until I started researching them for this video. It does seem like they are popular in South Asian cooking, but we’ve not been brave enough to try it yet..!
@@shewalksshepaints I would,not be surprised to find Fiddlehead recipes on You Tube:)
Used to be known as the burn of sorrow and burn of tears maybe links to your story of the maiden tree and the girl locked in in the castle. Love you videos 👍
Hello Sarah, Dollar Glen is beautiful and you presented it very well. Castle Campbell is awesome, such a solid well chosen position…trying to imagine it in it’s prime…such history I find intriguing! Scotland must indeed be magical because Jack Spaniels turned into a Labrador, produced a tennis ball from thin air, and passes gates like”now ya see me now ya don’t😂. The Fiddlehead fern is a favorite of mine, lovely how Spring is settled in now. Beautiful artwork, as usual, you are creating a wonderful gallery. See you next walk✌️
Thank you Greg!! I do need to find somewhere to exhibit all of my paintings - my studio wall is literally like a gallery now haha! I love looking up at them all while I’m working though 😊
Wow! That castle is awesome, I love castles and old houses. I really admire your skill and patience, your painting is beautiful! 😀💗 x
Thank you Amanda!!
Great video: I love castles and ferns too 💚 And I ordered your fern shoot art print, love it .
It's sad these places get burned as a revenge. Supreme video
Scotland was quite a vengeful place back then..!
So sad know body ever cared enough about the castles to rebuild them. Just breaks my heart to know all those ruins over in the UK never got rebuilt. Great art thank you for taking us with you.
Thanks Pam! There’s something about the ruins that I love, so I quite like exploring them 😊 There are a lot of lovely fully built or restored old buildings here too, although they are more difficult to visit with a scruffy spaniel in tow!!
@@shewalksshepaints That's great to know.
I’m in love with your channels!! All of them!! ❤🎉🎉😊
Aww thank you so much!
The "danger" looks like a power cable marker for buried cables or the like It'll be rubble waste they use to stabilise the path. Lots of bits of china and slag glass mixed into the paths near me! I thought at the start I saw a pole stump from a line when you entered the woods (you can tell I'm an insulator collector) 😂 Those paths with the wavy edges made by the wild garlic are lovely! Not to mention that pond with so many plant species! Jack shoving that tennis ball by you whilst you photograph makes me laugh 😂 I love ferns too and I've seen a few to paint! I bought some little reduced ferns when I was a child in the early 2000s for about a pound each and now they are the size of the ones in this video! Your paintings are always spectacular! Hopefully you'll get to see my oil painted ferns soon too! I have 3 paintings started currently though 😬 I agree with your comment about black by the way! I always prefer to use either a mix of dark colours or a nice Pthalo blue for the cold shadows! You are WAAYY better with proportions by eye than me! I usually paint back into areas to adjust shapes. I should really try watercolour at some point though 😂
Thanks Richard!! I loved the wild garlic around the paths too - such beautiful shapes & colours 😊 I’d love to see some of your paintings. I miss using oil paints - haven’t been able to use mine since I left uni. The thing about watercolours is there’s not really any going back or fixing bits once you’ve added the colour. So I always try and get my sketch pretty pretty accurate (although I know it will never be perfect 😅)
My ancestors were from the clan Campbell. So this is very cool for me to see, Thanks for sharing this beautiful place.
Awesome!! They were a very powerful family in this time period, so lots of fascinating history..
Epic adventure. Love your energy😊 Thank you for the inspiration❣❣
Thank you so much!! I’m so glad you are enjoying my videos 😊
Beautiful!
Thanks Barbara! It really is a beautiful place 😊
What a beautiful video. I enjoyed every bit. The lovely purple flowers to the I think you called them fiddle ferns and the views when you reached the top. If it is Willie on camera and drone filming you and Jack, kudos to you. I love how you narrate as you go. You are very knowledgeable. What a magical magnificent place.
You are a beautiful artist, very very talented. I look forward to seeing you each week. Lots of love from Diane in upstate New York.
Thank you so much Diane! It’s wonderful to get comments like that 😊
We have the same ferns here, deep in the hollows of the Blue Ridge. I know our continents were once one, so this is no surprise. Sarah, have you taken us to this castle before? Why does it look and feel familiar? I wish with all my heart I had been to Scotland, but I haven't. Thank you for taking us with you and for some lovely Jack Spaniels time. Beautiful video from start to finish.
Breathtakingly beautiful and Castle Campbell, do you think I could put a claim in for it🤔. Also have you seen the Oriental Painted Ferns?
Haha! You could try, but I think castles are pretty expensive things to maintain..! 😅 Just googled those ferns and they are beautiful! I don’t think we have anything like that here
Amazingly you don’t need mathematical measurements - your eye 👁 is amazingly discerning!
Aww thanks Jill! I’m never aiming for complete perfection - that’s what cameras are for! I just want to capture it as best I can by hand 😊
I love your videos sarah and jack is the waggiest tailed dog ever , just shiws how happy he is xx
Thanks Donna!! So glad you are enjoying them 😊 Jack is certainly very waggy - we’d love to know how many times he wags his tail in a day 😅
We have wild ferns here; but, I don't think I have ever seen anything like the ones you showed me on this video. We also have Castles in the U.S.A.; however, they are modern over-sized houses built to look something like an old Castle. They are not very interesting (because they are modern). Jack had a wonderful time. I enjoyed your video. I have taken two age related falls in the last two weeks; so, I am being very careful right now. I don't want to break any bones. Is the wild garlic there safe to eat? It does not look anything like the garlic I grow in my rose garden. That was a beautiful, interesting, and educational. I wish I could have smelled to woods while it was raining. Your panting is beautiful. I love to watch you paint. Thank you for this video. Please stay safe.
Hi Arvetta! Thanks so much for your comment - I’m so glad you liked the video. Scotland is definitely blessed in the castle department haha! The wild garlic leaves are edible - we forage them to make pesto, but you can eat them in a salad or infuse oil too. I think they are called ‘ramps’ in the US & Canada? Hope you are doing ok after your falls 😢
The birds singing out there is lovely. That's quite an up hill hike there. Nice castle out there, I love castles. Are those ferns edible? I think it was called fiddleheads? Your fern painting turned out beautiful.
Hi Sally! Thanks for your comment - so glad you liked it. I love castles, so it was a great walk for me, even if we couldn’t go in this time. We have never foraged fern shoots before, so not sure if those ones were edible. Some of them have toxins in which need to be cooked a certain way to remove them!
What a beautiful video 😊❤️ I’m hoping to head here this weekend, cannot wait!
How long roughly did this walk take you? I also love to film/photograph everything, and I have a dog that loves playing in the water too, so I’m fully prepared to add on extra time for that 😂
Thanks Siobhan! Sorry I didn’t get back to you straight away - did you manage to get there for a walk? We probably took around 2-3 hours with all the stopping for filming, but it’s easily done in an hour or two I think.
I would swear that was a 3D photo
Thanks!!
Sarah your Scots wild garlic is very different. Does it form bulbs like culinary garlic?
Hi Sue - I believe it does grow from bulbs, as it is related to normal garlic, but it is the leaves that we forage. I think it is also known as ramsons or ramps?
@@shewalksshepaints Hi Sarah, RAMPS, yes. We have them in spring in the USA and people forage them here too. Thank you