Category: Cornwall

A view of Housel Bay, Cornwall

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I’ve been away on holiday for the past week in Cornwall, trying not to eat too many fish and chips or pasties. I’ve been lucky enough to go to some great locations and have the time to do some sketching. Staying at the Housel Bay Hotel on the Lizard peninsula for a couple of nights […]

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Sketching the inner harbour at Polperro

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Lately I’ve been sketching and working on studies for various harbours around the UK. This is my latest – a sketch of the harbour at Polperro in Cornwall. Over the next couple of days I will also post these other sketches with the aim of using them as a basis for watercolours to follow.

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A small Boat at Clovelly

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Here is one of my more colourful experiments in a view of a small fishing boat. I think this is from a view from the harbour walls at Clovelly in Cornwall.

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Fishing Boat PZ86 at St. Ives Harbour

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I’ve been sorting through some old photos of past trips to harbours around the UK andhaving a go at a sketch of one of the fishing boats at low tide in St. Ives harbour. This is the result. Also below is my initial sketch and first wash. It is all nothing too complicated but maybe […]

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Church Cove watercolour

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Another of my landscapes today – this time a view of the small harbour inlet at Church Cove on the Lizard, Cornwall. This is one of those landscapes that I’ll probably be re-visiting, and there is some great views on this part of the coastline at the southern end of the Lizard Peninsula. Church cove […]

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