Thursday 15 Sept '22, Sizewell Beach

What an extraordinary week it's been, with everything overshadowed by events dominating the news since the death of Queen Elizabeth II.  It's been affecting and educational - for large numbers of us, I would think.  For those stalwart enough to queue or camp out to witness the lying in state, the weather seems to be getting cooler.  I wonder how it will be for intrepid artists in Sizewell.

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First, however, we hear from Carolyn who has returned to her garden for inspiration and sent us a very realistic watercolour painting of two plums from their large crop this year.  This is followed by the culinary rewards of gardening - a plum tart, now eaten.

Frances has been in Carlisle for a week and has sent us some splendid sketches from her explorations of the area.

Solway Firth at Port Carlisle

Solway Firth at Bowness on Solway (Rome 1150 miles ... apparently since Hadrian's Wall began here).

River water and stones at New Abbey Scotland

Ullswater

Ullswater (sitting on a rock)

The next picture is from Harriet who also did not go to today's venue.  It is done from a photo also shown, of Maggie-Anne's old bench, which she first showed us a version of a couple of weeks ago.  This appears to be a much more accomplished version.

Harriet's latest version of Maggie-Anne's bench

The rickety bench

Hurray for Sally L!  She's been to Sizewell today.  She says it's a great place for subject matter - a very brooding sky, with occasional bursts of sunlight, which made the white spherical reactor almost luminous, and the sea sparkle.  And here are her super sketches.  

​Obviously, the sparkly sea won out over the more boring sphere.

Ian J has sent us his pencil sketch from Sizewell today. 

More news now from Sally P at Sizewell.  She tells us that eight members turned up.  A fabulous location with lots of different subjects for them to paint and draw.  The weather held out but not a great deal of sunshine.  The café, carpark and loos were all close by.
Sally's offerings are a pencil drawing of a boat and nets, and Sizewell power station in pastels.  She has used a bit of artistic licence with the sky, although there really were dark skies at times.
Evidently no-one remembered to take a group photo at the end of the day.  (Shame!)  Too busy eating delicious chips.

Avril says she has 'quite a few" offerings this week - or in my language, "umpteen"!  A lot of hard work.  Here they all are:

On Sizewell beach Jackie sketched her first impressions of the beach contours in pencil then, after cake, did a painting of the Sea Kale and objects on the beach near one of the boats. She says that a huge disadvantage was the constantly changing skies and light, but it has been a most enjoyable day.

Angela has sent in three pieces of artwork from the meeting today, all showing the brooding skies.  She says she got some good photos which will help with colours for a painting.

NOTE:  In the past couple of weeks some work has been done to update the website, but it is still ongoing and we are hoping for further contributions in the next day or so.   EAG members who have not yet replied to our letter of 3rd September, please get in touch without delay.

Next week our venue is the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway at Wetheringset.  There is parking at the location but don’t forget to bring your own refreshments.

ALSO, REMEMBER HANNAH IS AWAY.  SO PLEASE SEND YOUR BLOG CONTRIBUTIONS TO ME (NOREEN) AGAIN.

​Have a good week!