Bright waters
Days lengthen as we travel through February. The sun starts to rise north, it's heat already apparent, catching the trunk of...
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Bella Bee
May 28, 20201 min read
Staying out
It's been pretty much wall to wall sunshine since March. Days spent outside under clear skies, strong shadows created by high sun. With...
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Bella Bee
Dec 24, 20191 min read
Looking North
Wishing you all a merry Christmas, with one eye on the fresh new year that will be 2020. #drawing #pastel #frost #field #landscape...
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Bella Bee
Jun 17, 20191 min read
Hele Bay Rocks at Low Tide
Pastel and pen sketch. #HeleBay #Ilfracombe #sketch #drawing #rocks #Coast
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Bella Bee
Jan 3, 20191 min read
January peace
As ever, the year starts with a peaceful lull as people settle back into their routines. It takes a while. As most, I usually find this...
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Bella Bee
Dec 30, 20181 min read
Goodbye, old year
Christmas usually sees a few new sketchbooks, their pages clean, inviting the stroke of a brush. Up by the lake the banks have been...
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Bella Bee
Nov 28, 20181 min read
Quietening the noise
Sometimes, when considering a problem, it is necessary to shift the mind into another gear. When seeking to see in another way, the...
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Bella Bee
Oct 21, 20181 min read
Poplar
Beautiful sunny autumn is here in the south west of England. Leaves turning colour have the perfect backdrop of cloudless blue skies....
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Bella Bee
Oct 16, 20181 min read
Gold leaf
Just when there are few posts on the blog, one is posted and along comes another in hot pursuit. There is a reason of course. The...
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Bella Bee
Oct 1, 20181 min read
Night draws in
We're not quite there yet, that part of the year when the nights take over from day. We are instead at that calm moment when days are...
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Bella Bee
Aug 17, 20181 min read
Alex Calder and the Onion beds
Visiting Bruton in Somerset, which has at gallery Hauser & Wirth on it's outskirts, I arranged to meet artist and friend, Caroline...
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Bella Bee
Aug 1, 20181 min read
Sketching by the lake
It wasn't too early and yet unusually I had the place to myself. Intending to make a few marks on paper, there was a sketchbook tucked...
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Bella Bee
Jul 24, 20181 min read
Dog keeps m o vi n g
It's been a while since I've sat down to draw a study which isn't leafy and free and have to admit that there was a creeping doubt that...
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Bella Bee
Jun 23, 20181 min read
Notes from a North Devon hillside
Pastels in sketchbook. The moors drop into the sea at a dramatic angle in North Devon. It makes just about every beach scene along this...
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Bella Bee
May 20, 20181 min read
Paint
It was Ian in the workshop who asked whether I had painted anything recently. Just that one comment obviously started something. It was...
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Bella Bee
Feb 17, 20181 min read
Catkins and Furrows
Sketch with tape The land's contours show up more when lined by sprouting furrows, the long rectangles echoed in catkins opening to...
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Bella Bee
Feb 13, 20181 min read
Escaping the mud
Tilly and I have started walking in a different area as the usual tracks have turned to mud in the February lanes. The ivy-strewn copse...
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Bella Bee
Jan 3, 20181 min read
2018, the first bite
May the rest of the year be as sweet and crisp 😊 There's a battle going on between projects at the moment. It's a problem which occurs...
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