New places always inspire me to sketch and paint. The weather recently wasn't on my side for plein air painting, so I opted to Sketch instead.
Cornwall full of inspiration and surprises
and I sketched using my Concertina book
This is a good example of limiting what to draw. There were actually a lot more buildings on the hillside, but the main focus for me is the tall building, so I kept it simple.
(no not pronounced Mouse Hole....it's actually more like
MOUZ ALL)
The little harbour had a lot of boats, but again I stuck with the ones that stood out
On our walk into Mousehole we came across the old Lifeboat Station
I'll leave you to read the following clips from the above notice
Families at the time had several of their love ones onboard the rescue vessel, and I think I'm correct in saying that following this tragic event, the RNLI brought in a rule that people from the same family couldn't go out on a rescue call together.
Another day we visited a former Mine
Namely
Levant Mine - a National Trust property - and I saw an original Beam engine working
Wow! those old boys certainly knew how to make machines back in the day
We got about in Cornwall quite a bit, and I even cycled a few times...No, I didn't sketch whilst I cycled!
This next sketch was from the car (it was cold and windy that day)
in fact I completed this later
The next is more of an observational sketch than scenic. We parked up and had a coffee
- well what else would I do whilst sitting there -
Yes you guessed, I Sketched
It's fascinating People Watching
We then drove further along the road to another car park and walked across the headland
So glad we walked, as there was a spot where you could look down onto a secluded beach
and guess what, there were lots of seals there
Our trip to Cornwall was certainly worth it.
