A few weeks ago we (my husband and me) went for a walk to the beach of Rockanje and we had foggy, grey weather. I have made a watercolour painting trying to depict that grey atmosphere but did not quite succeed. I wrote about that in this post.
This time I picked my charcoal to try to get that atmosphere. I have used my Willow charcoal and some Tinted Charcoal Pencils to get the atmosphere I wanted, using a different reference picture.
At the 'point' in the landscape some concrete bunkers were made in the dune edge during World War II and these bunkers are now in the sea. That shows how the sea takes from the land over the years.
These bunkers are now used by sea birds as a resting place and we walked as close as we could towards the waterline - it was ebb-tide and the remaining sands were very watery - and I made some reference pictures with my phone. The quality of these pictures is bad for a picture but usable as a reference.
The result is what I hoped for, a grey day at sea.
The information about the materials I have used, the size and availability of this work and - if you ae interested in my original artworks - my contact information can all be found in my Tumblr blog.
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