We’ve been cooped up for months so as it was bright and dry, but very cold, earlier today, Husb and I went for a walk on the beach. I wanted to get out and sketch en plein air and blow away the winter cobwebs. I sat down in the dunes behind a couple of people who were huddled up together in hoody and hat, sheltering from the wind. I did about 7 minutes scribbling onto an A3 piece of mountboard, prepared with 2 coats of acrylic gesso, using white, yellow ochre and black oilbars, overlaid with a splash of blue oil pastel. It was very sticky and I threw a handful of sand over it to finish it off. Had a terrific appetite by the time we got home.
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Love it!
Wish I could send some of my warmer weather your way. Your weather will change soon. 🙂
Yes. It’ll rain lol 🙂
I can really feel the salty, moving air in this – it’s lovely..
Thank you. It’s often the quickest sketches that convey the most 🙂
gosh, you are brave or have very durable fingers. my stumps got frostbite on the saturday
A lifetime of hot cooking and cold scribbling!
Ooh that’s beautiful, never seen you ‘channel’ Monet before 🙂
wow what a compliment, thank you. I was concentrating on not freezing lol. Throwing sand at it improved it greatly.
That does have a Monet feel to it. Painting in the plain air makes me hungry too. 🙂
Got back home to a slow-roast shoulder of lamb with fennel, rosemary, garlic and thyme. We scoffed!
Lovely sketch, love the colours. Would have been a bit too cold for me to sit and sketch even for a short period.
Thank you – lots of people out and about, but all dressed for an Arctic expedition 🙂
ooh, now I need to get me some oil bars…and more gesso 🙂
It’s great fun. There’s a clear oil bar as well which is I suppose the equivalent to extender in printmaking or adding oil in painting, to spread the colours and make them thinner, more translucent. That’s great for using with compresseed charcoal to get great big sweeping fluid lines.