Watercolour & Ink

Made the most of some lovely weather recently.  Something nice about sketching en plein air...

Wall Art with a difference

We came across some different wall art the other day.  This picture of a face was on a wall high up above the street on a building...

Not drawn or painted though, but Chipped out of the plaster work..

Very effective and striking.

Fishing Boat

There had to be a fishing boat if there were lobster/crab pots as with my previous post.  I enjoy the wet into wet technique with Winsor & Newton plus some Daniel Smith watercolours mingling together.

Lobster Pots

I couldn't go to a fishing village without sketching...could I?

Train by Road instead of Rail

Not every day you see a sight like this on the road...

Art Cards by Design

Sometimes a photograph will inspire me to paint it.  So it was with surprise that I was contacted recently and asked, by another Artist, if I would give her permission to paint one of the photos I had added online.....

namely this one

and who asked to paint this...

ANNA DANIELLE FROM 

THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED - Cards and Gifts

In view of the fact that Anna asked permission to paint this, I was more than happy to oblige, I knew Anna would make a great job of it as indeed she did...

Look at this.....

 Fantastic Artwork

Anna is such a wonderful artist
I feel honoured to have William and Hamish
painted by her and produced onto Cards.


Pop on over to

THE LITTLE DOG  LAUGHED

and browse through all the wonderful

Cards and Gifts there.

(Many Thanks Anna for choosing William and Hamish to inspire you)

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The Burrows

Braunton Burrows ◄ a link plus a link here ► Visiting Braunton Burrows

The weather was very changeable as you can see...threatening clouds didn't put us off though...

A lot of sand has moved from last Winter storms

....and it's amazing what gets washed up!

A certain lurcher seemed to have missed the only tree!

Looking across towards Appledore on the far shore

 We found a few things along the way - that's apart from washed up tree stumps...

this little Hat for one that somebody had placed on a post - 

no doubt in the hope it's owner's family would come back and find it.

The wildflowers are now going over, but they have been a blaze of colour

...and the remains of a homemade raft!

 But this one lost glove gave the a bit of fun for a lurcher....

Random dot to dot

By chance I happened upon a new dot to dot game...

Using a Graphik line painter pen

I tapped it over a clean sheet of paper

and got DOTS...lots of dots

then looked for a picture in it.

I found this ...

or even this...

As I say, it was a RANDOM  DOT  TO  DOT.

Perfect harmony

Isn't it great when man and dog are in perfect sync!

(seriously they don't always ignore one another) 

Sometimes we manage to find a really lovely shell on the beach...

New blog post...

...on my

USEFUL PAINTING TIPS BLOG 

TODAY

 ~ click this link and it will take you there ~

St. Helens Isle of Wight

 From countryside to seashore...

 a short walk from where we stayed recently,

down to the Old Church at St. Helens

▲ that's an old fort out to sea on the horizon

then a walk back across an area known as the Duver -

made for a good afternoons stroll

William enjoyed his time on the beach too,

but then he always does.