Day 202, of my 2016 sketch a day challenge

Common Centaury sketch

There are extensive patches of the delicate flowered Common Centaury (Centaurium erythraea) that over the past few years has grown on Kessingland beach.

It is a low growing biennial with small delicate 5 petaled flowers with yellow anthers. Interestingly early in the morning you will find all the flowers closed.

Kessingland beach is perfect as it is a blend of dry grassland and sand dunes.

Common centuary sketch 202

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