Where most of us have been all week
North Cornwall, what a beautiful place to live. The rugged dramatic coastline, the patchwork quilt of fields spread over hills and valleys. I was at last able to see why so many artists have chosen to live here. Action man had a great time mastering surf kayaking with son Hugo, Tom tried surfing for the first time and was very good at it, Xavier managed to get completely wet paddling most days. I only got wet when as the beach-based official family sports photographer I failed to notice the tide coming in as I looked through the viewfinder.
420mm x 150mm brushpen and watercolour
posted by Julie Oakley at Sunday, October 28, 2007
8 Comments:
I never got to Cornwall. I'd booked on a boat - once upon a time- and I intended visiting a potter in Cornwall, but I went to Fiji instead. On branch of our family came from there though.
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this is awesome!!
I absolutely LOVE Cornwall :)
nice sketch :)
The creeks of the south coast are beautiful too in a very different way - but my first love is the wild Atlantic north coast :)
Do you sketch out the main shapes of the drawings or just go straight in with the pen and paint?
I loved the "After the best fish and chips ever!".
I did a bit of charcoal for an A2 peice for collage but I still had to draw where the main shapes would be.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15641861@N08/1805073873/
Wendy it is beautiful. Genine and Vivien – I wish I could have had more time to draw on my own - maybe another time.
Finn I sometimes put in a few pencil lines, especially if I think the subject won't suit inaccuracy (eg. some architectural subjects). However I've found that going in straight away with pen or ink or paint can be a really good way of improving my ability to draw with bold confident strokes. So there was no pencil with this one but there were a few pencil guidelines put in on the "After the best fish and chips ever!" picture. Before I practiced drawing in pen (without pencil guidelines) my pencil drawing was very tentative, whereas now I am happier with the kind of pencil marks I make.
Thanks
Wonderful sketch. And you got to visit Cornwall! It´s way up there on my list over places where I would like to go. Would love to see more.
The best/
Christina from Sweden
Thanks Christina. I'd love to go to Cornwall again. Holidaying in this country is so expensive at the moment though.
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