Beach Week With Good Friends
This is the 3rd annual beach visit we made with friends we've known since 1965. We take a long walk on the beach every morning and then relax and "play" the rest of the day. I love to walk and collect shells and take photos of sea gulls. Here are 3 journal pages that I made on the first 2 days of the week - more to follow.
Several of the shells I collected on the first morning:
Drawings of a Spider Crab: We found a few more of my mystery crabs on the beach and our friend identified it as a spider crab. I sketched both sides of an empty crab body and then did a quick sketch of the whole crab we saw yesterday.
More Flying Sea Gulls: All drawn from photos I took on the beach
Comments
beautiful shell paintings!!
Posted by: christina | June 22, 2011 5:05 PM
I love this work of yours! The presentation of shells on the first page is awesome.
The second page reminds me that the FIRST things I EVER drew were cells (in Histology)!
And your understanding of gull wings is getting to be really good!
(http://csm.jmu.edu/biology/wunderre/bio490/bio490_projects_2002/soaringbirds490/diagrams.htm)
Congratulations
Posted by: Gwendolyn | June 22, 2011 6:15 PM
Wonderful drawings, Shirley. The spider crab's body is excellent.
Posted by: teri Flemal | June 22, 2011 10:38 PM
I also just had a beach week with some old friends! Nothing better! I confess I was not so productive as you however. Your paintings are great and I really love how you lay out the subject on the page. So organized and informative. Lovely work!
Posted by: Louise | June 23, 2011 11:39 AM
Lovely remembrances of a lovely trip! nancy
Posted by: nancy t. | June 23, 2011 3:20 PM
wow - i never have the energy
to do anything creative at the beach.
can't even read, much less draw.
well done!
Posted by: magpie | June 23, 2011 6:52 PM
Well drawn Shirley! Love those shells, and the rest. I was at Orange Beach 2 weeks ago and saw lots of seagulls and they reminded me of you and your drawings =)
Posted by: Alex Tan | June 24, 2011 2:18 AM
The colours in the first page are so lovely!
Posted by: Cathy Holtom | June 24, 2011 5:34 AM
I love these beach sketches, especially the shells. You achieved a beautiful array of color and tone, Well done!
Posted by: Marta GONZALES | June 27, 2011 12:13 PM