A word from Alice - studio stories from Alice Draws the Line
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Beach days
I challenged myself to do some speedy surfer sketches! There was a surf school and they were going through the different poses needed for surfing.
They didn’t stay still for any length of time and so working quickly was essential!
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A few days in Pembrokeshire
Back in August (2023) I had a lovely few days in Pembrokeshire. I thought I’d share some of the sketches that I did there.This was one evening. The others decided to have an evening walk along the headland. I couldn’t resist the lure of the picnic bench and view to set up my watercolour pad and paint the view while they were stretching their legs. -
Back to Borth beach
This extract hopefully shows some of the brush marks I was working with. The sky was amazing - blue but with streaks of white wispy clouds. Hard to achieve with watercolour without white or masking fluid, and so I added just the blue for the sky and left out spaces for the white clouds.
I was also working with a partially dry brush to try and create the white horses at the shoreline - I started to want to really play with this and develop it - but prolifically filling pages and stopping them blow away in the middle of a birthday picnic didn’t feel the right thing to do!
