sheerwater skull and seaweed chalk on paper 50x35cm

A few hours of close exploration of the things we found at the beach on Wednesday.

Teasing out the intricacies is deeply satisfying

Now back to the housework

18th March

Study of Shearwater; washed up among the driftwood on Roaring Beach
Using chalk on black paper I am working from light-to-dark
12x10 CM

Acrylic on board.

40x30 CM

A study of the blue winged parrot

I am trying to get the rhythm of the marks and colors to tell the story





Using many overlays of thin transparent colour