Coast In Winter

A  small card like sketch this one using watersoluble crayons with a pilot pen.
Sea green, the rough sea against the rocks

Photo Catch up Chichester

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Wednesday saw me in Chichester. It was a grey and blowy morning but sometimes Grey conditions are good if they have colour in them as this one shows.

I like this view of Chichester Cathedral,

Not sure if this is the right way up but it is a splash of colour.!

Wednesday Walkabout

Wednesday  Walkabout  whemt for a walk down Langstone way again.
The tide was in and it was a still afternoon

Warblington Castle caught my eye glimpsed through the trees from the garveyard

Another view this time with some atmospheric smoke as someone was having a bonfire!

I wa getting interested in the smoke and the contrast with the tower.

Returning [...]

William Trost Richards (1835-1905)

This Striking painting was painted be the American painter William Trost Richards and shows Lands Land in Cornwall at its most dramatic.
You can almost feel the spray of the sea in this painting and I like the golden light the painter achieves,
I shall certainly be returning to this artist again as he paid 3 or [...]

Charles Conder at Swanage

By the Sea
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Wondering Wednesday Sketches

Its been a while since I have sketched from life so this morning being a nice sunny one with a pleasant breeze i did a couple down at Langstone . I used neocolour crayon like patel and a edding pen. The second one is not as good but stillconveys something to me.

Sketches of San Francisco.

Remember me saying how I thought photos jogged the memory , well of course sketchbooks do the same thing and are somehow more personal.As we we were in Yosemite with the last photo I dug out the Sketchbook of the trip,which I note was made in 2004 Hope you enjoy looking at [...]

Out of Chaos……

Out of chaos great things grow……

Playing around with paintings!

Turner Further Welsh Adventures

As we left the last post on Turner in North Wales I though a painting of North Wales appropriate for this post.
There is also a good article here which adds to the knowledge about Turners Welsh travels.
If we are being accurate I know that I have only shown one painting [...]

W.P Frith And Paddington Station

Have not had a post about a railway for for a while so here is a painting by W.P Frith of Paddington Station.
The hustle and bustle of a station and Victorian society are what this painting is about.
Also if you look closly at the painting the engine driver an be made out in the painting.
In [...]