A large swell brought out the serious surfers this afternoon down at Cottesloe Beach, only the brave ventured into the water to try catch a wave before it broke on the beach…This sketch painted really rapidly directly with watercolour (no drawing first – didn’t have time as the rain clouds were approaching) surfers added at the end with fountain pen
Every winter the Indian Ocean washes the sand away from the shoreline at North Cottesloe to expose the fossilised reef underneath and bright green seaweed latches onto the rock. When spring arrives the sand will be swept back up onto the beach and bury the reef again until the following winter…
The “golden hour” glow of winter sun at City Beach Perth yesterday, the sun officially set at 5.19pm. This sketch took around half an hour drawing and painting in my new (first page) “Seawhite of Brighton” sketchbook bought in Winchester in the UK during a pre-covid holiday. It seems very good paper, bright white with a “Not” finish gives enough texture to get the dry-brush effect that I wanted for the white water waves, the 200gsm thickness didn’t buckle or warp.
Waterbrush and 6 colours…Hansa yellow medium, Yellow ochre, Transparent pyrrol orange, Quinacridone lilac, Indanthrone blue, Phthalocyanine blue (green shade). I’m finding that I can mix almost any colour I need with just these 6 colours, this is my variation on Jane Blundell’s recommendations for limited palette. Check out Jane’s blog for ideas of a limited palette below…
https://janeblundellart.blogspot.com/2014/08/colour-exploration-4-bright-non.html
https://www.janeblundellart.com/sketchbook-pages.html
A blustery, stormy day for the second week of winter this year, Bennion Beach (next to Trigg Beach) was being pounded by the big waves, sand scraped off the limestone rocks and swept along to the next bay. Indigo sky threatened rain (showers on and off today) but strangely not cold. This was a rapid sketch as there was no shelter at the beach…
Massive (21 story?) building going up on the old Subiaco Pavillion Markets site at the moment, looks to be about half built – “L 12” is written on the lift shaft. When it’s finished it’s going to be huge, towering over everything and everyone. I had fun sketching this from the bike path on Roberts Road, the bright red concrete pump, the yellow and red scaffolding and the big cranes stretching up into the sky.
Late afternoon sitting on City Beach in Perth, just before sunset (5.20pm) a golden light dances on the Indian Ocean before setting for the night…
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