Cornwall 2017 - Mousehole & Newlyn

 

Newlyn - Pentel pocket brush and watercolours

 

 

Mousehole - Watercolour Pen

Never Can Tell A

 

A day at Wells-Next-The-Sea with family crabbing.

Wells Day Trip 2 - Harbour Office

 

The harbour office from across the quay.

 

I'd forgotten how beautiful the paper is in a Venezia Sketchbook...I'd also forgotten how damn annoying it is to scan one of these books!

Cromer 2014 - Peekaboo Church

 

Found a nice spot to sit with the beach to our right and a peek of the church to our left

Santa Susanna Journal - Spread 12

SS12, a photo by Anita Davies on Flickr.

Another sketch from outside 'Kings' restaurant/bar of Tossa De Mar beach.

Wells-Next-The-Sea

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We spent Dads birthday relaxing on the Quay, which was unusually quiet and very peaceful. Harry caught over 90 crabs in just 2 hours!
Later friends joined at Dads for a drop of pink champagne...a drop because I drank most of the bottle which made my legs go slightly numb.
Great Day filled with fabulous memories and tender moments.

Wells-Next-The-Sea

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Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

Noodlers bullet proof black ink and watercolour in daily journal

5 Miles From Anywhere Inn, Ely, Cambs UK

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Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

Lunch along the river with my good friend Jane

Saturday With Sue Pownall

On Friday my good friend Joannie came to stay for the weekend.
On Friday evening we did some sketching from DVD stills of Italian architecture, that have yet to scan, in preparation for our Italian trip next year.

On Saturday morning we drove into Haddenham Galleries, to see my exhibition, before going onto Upware to The Five Mile Inn where I had arranged to meet fellow art blogger Sue Pownall for the very first time.



We spent a wonderful day together, eating, drinking chatting and sketching. Sue is such a lovely woman.



We all hope to meet again in Coltishall, where Joannie lives, when Sue returns from overseas next year, and Sue invited us to visit her in her new appartment in Southern Italy as soon as renovations were complete....How exciting is that!

A great day with fantastic company!

My Weekend In Norfolk - Horning

The Swan Inn Garden

Joan and I spent Saturday in the small village of Horning. We had coffee and cake in a quaint cafe garden, lunch and a tipple in an elegant pub garden and all just yards from the river Bure. The sun shone, the laughter flowed and we even managed a few sketches.

Little thatched cottage next to the swan Inn

Horning Sailing Club

This final spread of our day was created in just a couple of minutes (approx 30 seconds for the boat sketch before colouring) I was surprised at how it came out...A good example for all those 'I didn't have time to sketch' moments!

Wells-Next-The-Sea

7x9" pen and wash

Another sketch compilation for my upcoming exhibition

The Quay, Wells-Next-The-Sea

The Quay, Wells-Next-The-Sea - Anita Davies

This was painted using my sketchbooks as a reference, from one of my many trips to Maryland Cottage in Wells last year.
The great thing about going straight in with paint is that you are free to change things without becoming a slave to your drawing. Below you can see the three stages my sand banks went through before I was finally happy with their placement.

I tried something of a vingette on this piece, an idea that has been knocking around my head for a while, and didn't fill the canvas so the primer showed...I quite like the effect but then I have always has a passion for artworks that appear unfinished or incomplete...What do you think?



I worked fast and loose with a big flat brush and Atelier interactive paints, the entire painting took around an hour and a half and was great fun.

Room for improvement - Notes*
I am considering lenghtening the mast so it breaks through to the sky slightly to improve composition and, who knows, maybe I'll add a couple of birds to that sky on the right to keep the viewers eye rolling around the canvas and complete a nice triangle between my mast, the birds and the buoy.

1 Hour Session

A quick 8x10" painting, created on canvas. using an ink sketch from my mixed views sketchbook as a reference while cooking dinner.

The original plein air sketch can be seen top right, created using Noodlers red/black ink.

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Sketchdate In Ely

Emma-Jane and I have not seen one another for almost a year, so we made arrangements to get together in Ely and sketch together. We had a great time catching up, lunched at The Maltings and drank numerous cups of coffee in various cafes.

We have planned to make The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge our next trip together and we do not intend to leave it quite so long between dates this time!

Wells Summer Break - Day 5

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Wells Summer Break - Day 4

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Wells Summer Break - Day 2

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Wells - Day 3

Another very quick spread in my A5 Winsor & Newton heavyweight sketchbook.

Daylock Marine

On Friday Jane, a student and good friend of mine, spent the day together. We browsed a rather poor exhibition in Chatteris library before moving on to Huntingdon where we grabbed a cuppa in the Daylock Marine. We stayed a while chatting and sketching before moving up the river bank to Hertford Marina where we indulged in a spot of lunch.
A wonderfully relaxing day, spent in great company.

The Cottage At Wells - Day 4

My Aunts left us early Monday morning and soon after Mum and I took Harry along the quay crabbing again. He caught 71 crabs!!!...He was thrilled, as you can imagine.

Later that afternoon my Mum took a nap while I took Harry for a stroll to the local church just 5 mins away. It was open, a rarity with churches these days, so we took a seat and spent a few minutes with our sketchbooks.



We had a great time at the cottage and were sad to leave but have already re-booked for July.