Beach Drawing Series

Started a beach drawing series .....here is the first batch

 

Studio Shots

Walls are starting to fill up.....it had been a very surprising struggle to get going this time

 

 

Nothing seems clear....including this photo...5th attempt!

Hello to all my South Korea followers

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I am suffering from, well I don't like to call it artist block but it's just not happening.  So I am now trying to give it a jig along.  Trying to encourage a bit of flow in the work practice.  Revisiting some tests from earlier in the year

These are just little sketches if you like...so I am not going spend ages trying to get the perfect shot.  The idea is to jog my mind out of its inertia. Left to right thinking I suppose.

Beach Gatherings

Mmmmm it all seems a bit vague at the moment.  You know that moment when you are desperately trying to connect with your work and nothing is happening....

Anyway loving the curly piece of birch and the sea worn piece of hardboard....nice embossment I think

Working at the Moray Art Centre Studio

I have decided that my beach gatherings are going to be very thoughtful.  In that I mean I am going to try to be very selective about what I bring back to the studio.  As usual it takes me time to settle down and get cracking.  I am trying to work out how to start where I left off in Cromarty.

The wild beach at Findhorn on Saturday

The gatherings....

I found myself getting excited with the shadows but the lighting wasn't suitable to make it more exaggerated 

Testing out a new template for the blog

Good Photos

Well I have spent the last few days trying to take good solid photographs that show up the embossment and don't have weird bits of extraneous colour randomly scattered over the image.  And I think this morning I have almost succeeded.  I just have to give them all a title now.

It is driving me nuts that they show up on here much darker.  After spending all that time making them right they look all dark on here....they don't look this dark on facebook.
So bear in mind that these do look lighter..........Time to find an alternative to this blog I think.  Ok...I have the titles

'tip & spill'

'cast ashore'

'tidelines'

'forage'

'sea stained'

This last one here is called 'Beached"