Day 199, of my 2016 sketch a day challenge

Pakefield Church sketch

Spent the day at Ferini Gallery in Pakefield, please visit and see the postcards which are on display for the forthcoming auction on the 17th August (and yes one is mine).

Please follow the link for an on line viewing although most of them are there although there are still some to posted yet http://www.pakefieldpostcardauction.co.uk/ .

Had time in the afternoon on this beautiful summer day to slip out and down to All Saints’ and St Margaret’s Church in Pakefield which sits on the cliff beside the beach. It hasn’t always sat on the cliff top, at one time it was half a mile away but with coastal erosion some 400 houses were lost .

Pakefield church sketch 199

Day 198, of my 2016 sketch a day challenge

North Warren sketch

A hot summers day and a good opportunity to walk the 3 mile circular walk around RSPB North Warren in Thorpeness, Suffolk. It is a great walk through both woodland and into reed beds and at the half way point is a nice little viewing platform overlooking water and reeds. Plently of dragon and damsel flies and bees feeding on the Purple Loosestrife, Meadowsweet and the Balsam. Across the reeds a Marsh Harrier was quartering hunting for it’s prey.

I settled early on in this sketch a day challenge with using chinagraph pencils which have been great until today when I found that in the sun they were getting very soft and starting to melt, I guess there will be some more difficult days ahead.

Northwarren sketch 198

 

Day 196, of my 2016 sketch a day challenge

Covehithe cliff sketch

An early evening walk down at Covehithe. This view is as you approach the end of the footpath as it arrives at the broad, to the left the path continues to the right the cliff edge with the beach 10 ft below and spreading into the distance. Tonight a sky of two halves to the north blue clear skies and to the south billowing grey clouds gobbling up the sun.

Covehithe cliff sketch 196

Day 195, of my 2016 sketch a day challenge

Rushmere Church

Not to be confused with the church in the suburbs of Ipswich this is Rushmere St Michael in the country lanes between Beccles and Lowestoft. Getting this sketch finished quickly as the sky is darkening by the minute and the threat of rain is again ever increasing.

Rushmere church sketch 195