All Peachy On The Beachy

As autumn officially closes in, here are my summertime seaside pieces before they feel irrelevant! Wasn’t going to show the first two, but as they all link as part of a series, why not give an idea of the day’s transition?

Some light, traditional fun for me and traditional fun in the sun for these youngsters. Unfortunately my pictures coloured with marker pens (also with coloured pencil) just do not scan well at all and a photograph isn’t perfect, either – although better:

The second piece is of later on in the day. Here I was influenced by an evening photo of Weston-super-Mare (in South-West England) that I have in my album, which somebody else took whilst with me. This time using coloured pencils. Again it didn’t scan entirely true to actual tones, but can get away with it better here! An appreciation of being beside the sea, watching the sunset, etc:

The third is a mixture of traditional and digital. Using another W-s-M photo for reference, I roughly drew it all out first and coloured all in Photoshop. I purposely coloured quite blocky with the mouse and tried out a few brushes for the clouds. Removed all pencil lines in the background last minute and kept them on the hares, which seemed to work out rather nicely:

And now we must say goodbye to summer…

More to come soon.