Simon 'Golly' Gamble 17/01/1967 - 02/01/2014 ~ Daily Sketch 02/01/2015

Simon 'Golly' Gamble 

17/01/1967 - 02/01/2014 

Pencil

It's a year ago today that this fine man passed away, a good man. Golly always made me smile and left me feeling better for having been in his company. 

Mersea Beach ~ Daily Sketch 12/01/2014

Ten minutes sketch with gloved hands

As you can see from my hasty, wobbly pencil offering today I went to the beach. It is the first time i've walked along the beach for some time and although the sky was beautifully clear and the sun was bright the wind was nipping at my fingers. However I resolved to make a sketch but kept it brief with a few notes, simply in pencil, my gloves stayed on for the ten minutes it took.

This particular stretch of the shore is mostly shingle and shells at the water line giving way to finer sand higher up by the beach huts. As is often the case I picked up one or two shells for further reference and to accompany the many others that grace the window sill of my studio.

The few shells that made it home

As it has been quite a while since the last one, I'm now pondering another bigger studio painting of the huts and the beach/foreshore which will be an amalgamation of various sketches, photo's and found bits. 

Reed Beds at Snape ~ Daily Sketch 15/10/2013

House Across the Street ~ Daily Sketch 06/06/2013

These beautifully made 'mock Tudor' houses were built by Clifford White of Mersea in 1933 and were the first to benefit from mains electricity when it arrived in the mid 1930's from across the Strood!

Tunnock's Teacake ~ Daily Sketch 15/05/2013