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The glorious Cornish Summer.. Ha

7/27/2016

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Fog and rough weather, Priests Cove, Cape Cornwall, 9 July 2016 Carolyn Lamb Conte pencil
I had imagined 9 sunny days painting outdoors in Cornwall. This is what I got. A blanket of fog hanging over the view. Luckily I had added some Conte pencils and pastel paper to my kit at the last moment so did this view of waves through the rain splattered window on my first evening.


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My one a day sketchbook was useful for small studies

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The benefit of a cliff-side house is you have a view whatever the weather .
My first full working day started at 9.30 with small ink sketches getting to know the landscape. This cliff is Carn Gloose and that seagull came every morning.

The view was constantly varying. Tides coming in and out, the other side of the bay at Lands End going in and out of view and weather constantly changing but forecast to be generally cool, overcast and showery.

Showers once an hour meant no long spells of outdoor painting so I started indoors with my big (for me) watercolour paper and tubes.

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The Old Pump House, Priests Cove. Carolyn Lamb watercolour 10th July 2016
Although Brisons Veor is said to be the westermost house in England, I was not completely isolated as friends Lisa and Roy came down from St Just at teatime most days, bringing goodies and cough medicine and we went sketching. This is the hut I painted in 2011, now further battered and roofless.


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