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Watercolouring on Charlestown beach.

© Peter W. Marks

Watercolouring on Charlestown beach.

Uploaded: February 08, 2013

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Elizabeth making a sketch in watercolours on the beach at Charlestown, Cornwall. This will be used to create larger finished pieces in acrylics when we return to the USA.

Exif: F Number: 9, Exposure Bias Value: 0.00, ExposureTime: 1/80 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO: 125, White balance: Manual white balance, FocalLength: 14.00 mm, Model: Canon EOS 50D

Comments

Dale Hardin February 08, 2013

Thanks for showing us her procedure, Peter. Does she ever work from photos, or does the process of creating the water colors help her solidify the interpretation she has in mind for the image she will be making later? #1513585

Rita K. Connell level-classic February 08, 2013

a story indeed....would love to see some more of Elizabeth's work. It must be fun to see her work her magic. you don't happen to have an image of standing behind her and letting us see what she was seeing.... do you? #10559247

Debbra Bailey February 08, 2013

Very cool! Makes me think I am pretty lazy as an artist - I would take a picture to use when I got home! Nice angle on this shot. #10559567

Peter W. Marks February 08, 2013

Thanks Dale and ladies.
Answering your question Dale, Elizabeth does both. When we are on vacation back in the UK she gets the most satisfaction from sitting on a beach or cliff-top above the ocean in Cornwall and painting "en pleine air". Her pleasure is in the process itself which would be largely absent in just clicking a camera shutter. Of course pleine air painting is dependant on the weather and also time available.
Also Elizabeth mostly paints in the the 'impressionist' genre and sitting on the beach or cliff engages all her senses in the way that a photo image would not. So yes Dale you have nailed it exactly.
Rita, I will load a photo I took of E picking sea shells on the beach and I was standing almost exactly in the spot that she had painted from. It is not a very exciting pic but she wanted this pebbly beach where I and siblings played and swam from when we were kids back in the '40s and '50s. It connects her with a culture and history that was so different from her upbringing in mid Illinois.
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Rita K. Connell level-classic February 08, 2013

thank you for posting what she was looking at. no matter what her style is, it must be fun to she what she sees....! #10559859

Beth Spencer February 08, 2013

Great shot!! I can understand how she likes to just enjoy the beach and do her painting. I love just walking on the beach in the early morning before most people are even up... However I do not have the talent to draw or paint! #10559902

Michael Kelly level-classic February 08, 2013

Looks like she is well on her way to a very intriguing piece of art. I like the view down the beach too. #10559935

Jeff E Jensen February 09, 2013

Excellent story telling image, Peter! Tell Elizabeth hi for me! #10561037

Peter W. Marks February 12, 2013

Many thanks friends. I wish I had some finished paintings to show you but the reality is that whilst on vacation back in Cornwall she might do at least a dozen watercolor sketches but they tend to get stored away for some future time when she does have time; if you follow me! She treats these pieces in rather the same way as we Phellos do our own work. We have hundreds of images all filed away on our hard-drives and only a tiny few ever get worked on in PS and printed. Painting is no longer her primary interest and doing these sketches on vacation is mainly to keep her hand in for when she is teaching techniques at school. Over the nine years or so since she went back to university to get her art and teaching degrees she has gone through stages of paper-making; installations; ceramics, and latterly turning plain offwhite silk into exquisitely patterned scarves . If you go to her blog below you will see how she learned that technique from her friend Pat. I am the provider of bits of rusty pipe and burn-barrel for those projects.
http://2ndhandpaper.blogspot.com/2012/08/rust-printing-with-pat-vivod.html

Here are just a few bits of the sketch paintings of tidal rock-pools in Cornwall and a couple of larger pieces that have been shown in art galleries. The largest one was inspired by the myriad of sea-anemonies, tiny crabs,sea shells and other marine life that live in these pools and may be seen when the tide recedes.
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Peter W. Marks February 12, 2013

Here are the watercolors mentioned above; I always have a problem when trying to load them on a response.
So let's try again.
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Peter W. Marks February 12, 2013

My last attempt!
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Peter W. Marks February 12, 2013

OK
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