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Sketching

Landscape Sketches

Outdoor sketching: nr Lindisfarne, NE Coast
July 23/24/25
Brief coastal drawing in conte and pen. Photos for ref
  • like the conte sketch of Embleton bay and parts of pen work on Dunstanburgh castle cliffs.
  • landscape sketches needed gouache light washes in areas to capture the tones/colours/erractic patterning of cliffs
  • need slightly wider range of resources to enable me to focus on the essence of place -esp sea & sky
  • should direct focus to point of interest and use wider range of mark making to suggest rather than overdraw