Mist over Charnmouth Bay

When on holiday we get a chance to do fun things which normally we do not have time for. One of my fun things is to do a painting in three ways; that is, a water colour, then an ink, which is followed by a pencil drawing or a photo. Do all three or four at one sitting, just relax, whilst enjoying yourself. It is totally absorbing and helps you to really see what you are looking at, because each media highlights differing aspects of the view. Incidentally while you are doing this you will be emotionally in a different place; its rather a nice way of doing things.

I was at Charnmouth for about a couple of hours, a water colour was produced (above) followed by an ink and then lastly came a photograph; it was windy, but not at all cold; that is by my standards, Liz would disagree. This small inlet is  big fossil hunting area and people were dotted around busily hunting for long dead stony remains. A happy place, with everybody being busy, not having time to talk to one another. That makes a change, as it is rare for me to be able to sit painting without at least one or two people coming over to me for a chat. Its a good job that I like people, because that is large part of painting outside.