We spent a while on a wonderful beach of black sand covered with shiny dark, coin-shaped pebbles, fringed with towering silvery basalt columns, like the ones at the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland. I couldn’t resist scribbling and despite the snow, sketched some of the basalt with one of the Reynisdrangur sea stacks in the background. Husb snapped me from above. It was freezing. I managed about 3 minutes with my gloves off.
This is drawn into a Khadi hand-made paper sketchpad, 20cms square, previously prepared with a sepia wash sponged on randomly. It is drawn with a Faber Castell Pitt drawing pen, size S, and graphite block. By the way, my luggage was searched at Heathrow and my bag caused a stir because the chemical sniffing machine detected graphite and that’s one of their banned substance. They made a bit of a fuss until I told them that I’m an artist and carry blocks of graphite for drawing. They could’ve asked…….
Husb photographed the sea stacks from a large cave eroded into the basalt cliffs.
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Great stuff. Unfortunately I missed the beach at Reynisdrangar.
It was amazing 🙂
Wow…that must have been a great trip.
It was incredible – we want to go back…..
Oh good – something else that security is checking. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for airline safety, but some of the regulations see rather odd! Great sketches, Rosie.
Thanks Terri. They wave a stick with a cotton swab around the inside of the hand luggage and apparently graphite is on the list of banned substances. It’s in pencils!
Obviously pencils aren’t the problem!
What a fascinating place. I dig the drawing and the way you use the toned paper.
Thank you. I didn’t know what to expect so I prepared lots of different papers so I had plenty of choice. The freezing cold was a problem though……
Oooo I love Iceland !! I was there in September last year.. This looks very like Vik beach but I guess they are mostly alike around the south coast…
It was just a few miles down the road from Vik……
Great sketch Rosie. Good job you weren’t too close to the sea, tourists have been swept away here, never to be seen again!
Olafur The Guide gave us dire warnings about it! The sea was ferocious.