Cottesloe dog beach

Lots of four legged and two legged dashing around at Cottesloe dog beach (South Cottesloe) this afternoon, enjoying the cooling sea-breeze and ocean water

Port Beach windy day quick sketch

Windy morning at Port Beach last month, freighters lined up in Gage Roads to enter Fremantle harbour, parts of the car park are fenced off, big winter storms have washed away the beach and tarmac.

Cottesloe Groyne

A big swell but little breeze yesterday…sitting sketching on Cottesloe Groyne

North Cottesloe fossilized reef

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…

Trigg Beach – Bennion Beach – Winter storm

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…

Beach life…more

Cottesloe Beach – Storm and Calm

Dark clouds approaching and disappearing horizon before a storm last week…Another day, calm returns with piles of seaweed ripped up by the big waves and tides…Good fishing for some too….

South Mole Fremantle

South Mole lighthouse Fremantle midday…a strong Southerly breeze (blowing up from Antarctica…a bit chilly) watching the big container ships being escorted out of the port into Gage Roads…

City Beach Sketches

A few recent sketches of City Beach in Perth, we have Covid-19 restrictions but have been allowed to go to the beach to exercise so long as we are appropriately socially distant. A swim and a sketch…

North Cottesloe

Dark clouds hovering on the horizon over Rottnest Island…10 minute watercolour sketch on A6 paper