Essex Island: February

I have been working away in my studio, whenever that light was good enough! – getting on with the second painting in  my Twelve Months on an Essex Island series!

I finished yesterday morning – here it is!

This is the view back across the Strood to the mainland, and the villages of Great Wigborough and Peldon.

When I started this project last month I decided that not all the paintings would show the estuary or the sea; some should be of the interior of the Island, instead. The series is going to be very varied!

I have also finished my little Findings drawing, this time of two shells and a flint that I picked up on the beach at the bottom of Kingsland Avenue.

This little drawing, in Faber Castell Pitt Pastel pencils on Daler Rowney pastel paper, is just 15cm square, as all the Findings drawings will be. They will all  have a white mount and a simple white wood frame and glass. They can be found on my new Small Paintings and Drawings page, and will be just £68.00 each.