Marloes Sands – Marloes Gallery

Marloes Sands greetings card

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Marloes Sands greetings card
This card used to sell well in the Village Stores. It is now on sale again, at Runwayskiln Café; hopefully it will prove equally popular. The original picture is now in a private collection, i.e. someone bought it! I painted it on location in early autumn 2017; the back of the card features a photo of the finished picture on my easel, on the spot. I was lucky to have calm weather for each painting session; mind you, that’s a relative term at such a position.

Oil on panel
16” x 24”

La fille et la falaise 2

(See previous post) When the girl had come so far up the tideline, she stopped and looked out to the sea for so long, her family caught her up; so, I had time for this sketch. I wondered, was this the last day of the holidays? She and the “oldies” were delighted to see both sketches.
One day, I might work out how to combine both sketches in one painting!

Après Swim

16th August 2023 must have been quite warm, because after her swim this young lady was happy to go off wandering about the beach with that towel flapping like a big flag. Sanguine Conté.

Playing at the surf’s edge

Today (April 26th) started wet and miserable; by mid afternoon the sky had cleared and the sun was steadily strengthening. Having done two hours of pressure washing, I thought I deserved a break and headed for Marloes Sands. With the tide well in, I climbed over the brow and took the zigzag path down to the beach at Matthew Slade.
I expected the sea to be too rough for going in, but two intrepid young ladies went and played at the surf’s edge, happily letting the stronger waves crash onto them.
I started my sketch of Milly and Ella using sepia Conte and then added pencil and coloured pencil – not a usual technique for me, but I thought I’d have a go.
To help judge the effectiveness of this approach, I have included a monochrome rendering of the colour scan, to give an idea of how the sketch might have turned out had I kept to just pencil.
Following my subjects’ example, I then had a quick session in the sea – like swimming in a washing machine, most exhilarating!