Chine, Isle of Wight

 We have chines on the Isle of Wight - and doubtless they have them elsewhere.  Areas of eroded land, bordering the sea - sometimes quite a long way back from the coastline - forming a valley.  Some are well-known tourist areas, such as Shanklin Chine.  This isn't Shanklin Chine - its a composite.  Call it Composite Chine....

Watercolour on Hahnemühle Rough Torchon, 12 x 17cm. 

 

Colwell Bay - as it once was, before a "skeletal, stomach-churning stairlift" was installed a good many years ago.  And as I preferred it.  Very small watercolour 12 by 17cm.  

New Year's Greetings to All

 And to kick of 2024, a year that has started - interestingly; i.e. some problems on the horizon, but then, aren't there always? - I have a few drawings to show in some of my favourite media.

If I can find them, that is - with increasing age has come increasing forgetfulness: I once knew where I'd filed things without having to look; now - I save something, file it away neatly, forget where it is in a matter of hours.

Still, never mind eh?  And Happy New Year to my devoted followers and those who visit without following - come on, FOLLOW!

A varied selection, I think you'll agree: from 1) ink and a splash of diluted Chromacolour - from one of my photographs of fields at Perreton, Isle of Wight; 2) a footbridge in Sussex, from a photo by my brother Brian; 3) a little watercolour of the revetment, at Ventnor, IW; 4) Magpie, eyeing up the last of the figs; 5) a visit from an old friend; 6) Wild, forlorn, overgrown - I was in Dickensian mood at the time.  Pen and ink.  

I have paintings to show too - once I can get good photographs of them; dark flat, so need to be photographed outside - when, if, it stops raining/blowing a gale.