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
Jun 26, 20191 min read
Looking East
There is a coastal path which winds up the hillside from Ilfracombe towards Hele Bay. It has two sections; one which goes up high, and...
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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
Jun 7, 20191 min read
Hele Bay
A favourite method of painting is oil on paper and so there are a few oil paintings in a sketchbook which have been done in response to...
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Bella Bee
Apr 2, 20191 min read
Hele Bay sketching
North Devon has a dramatic coastline. #HeleBay #ilfracombe #NorthDevon #sketch #pastel #seasketches
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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 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 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
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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Bella Bee
Nov 30, 20171 min read
Stuck on you
I've been told the residue marks left by the adhesive when the item to which it once stuck had gone is called a glyph. A search on...
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Bella Bee
Nov 23, 20171 min read
Simplifying the Rocks
The rocks at Hele Bay; they're either going to provide a source of inspiration or they will be driving me to distraction as I try to find...
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