Brilliant sunlight but Baltic winds almost turned me back from sketching at Thornham today. But, wrapped in about four layers of warm clothing, including Russian-type hat, I persevered and managed a couple of sketchbook spreads.
Old landing stage and channel markers. Sketchbook, Mari French 2016
Plenty of skeins of geese overhead and landing in nearby fields, especially the small dark Brent geese which have such an odd but appealing call, a kind of ‘ruff ruff ruff’, like dogs. One of them left its sky borne flock and circling round, landed close by, pottering in the marsh grass for a while, completely heedless of me sat there sketching.
Brent geese, Norfolk coast. Mari French 2016
Cold wind and sunlight, Ragged Marsh, Thornham. Mari French 2016
Just love the way the small creeks and pools reflect the clear blue sky amidst the golden tobacco colours of the winter marsh grass, with the upright but skewed channel marker posts scattered in the distance. Will I ever tire of this?
Brent goose, Thornham Marsh. Mari French 2016
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Nice work.
Bitterly cold (well below freezing) and windy here. Hard to stay outside long, but the light is really gorgeous! Thanks for posting this piece; I’ll be sharing it with some of my students!
Thanks very much for your welcome response to the post John!
Beautiful descriptions as well as lovely sketches. Glad that you were able to brave the cold!
Thanks Christine, and for visiting my blog 🙂
As ever Mari, your words alone paint a thousand pictures – add to those your sketches and you conjure up the north Norfolk coast perfectly!!
Thanks for your lovely comment Carolyn. Glad you enjoyed the post!