Sidlesham Quay

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It's lovely David. Great limited palette.

Posted by Henry Martin on Tue 31 Jan 09:41:26

A classic English watercolour sketch - splendid. Love the blue.

Posted by Tony Auffret on Tue 31 Jan 09:58:16

A lovely sketch and good colour selection David

Posted by David Johns on Tue 31 Jan 10:29:08

And the sketch comes to wonderful life! Beautiful.

Posted by Ruth Dolan on Tue 31 Jan 10:41:04

Ar Ruth has said, the colou r has given life to your sketch. I often regret adding colour to my sketches, I add too much but this works very well.

Posted by Stephen Slater on Tue 31 Jan 16:15:22

This is great, David. Loved the pen drawing but this added a lot of atmosphere to it. Love the limited palette.

Posted by Mia Ketels on Tue 31 Jan 16:52:25

Lovely work of one our fave places David

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Wed 01 Feb 11:09:50

Thank you, one and all. It's satisfying to add a memorable page to my travel sketchbook, but even more so when it resonates with so many viewers.

Posted by David Whitehead on Wed 01 Feb 15:54:20

Hang on Studio Wall

31/01/2017

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I have put washes on my pen sketch, using a limited palette of raw & burnt siennas, ultramarine and burnt umber, similar to Edward Wesson’s. Although Wesson painted many places around Chichester Harbour, I’ve never seen any of Sidlesham by him, surprisingly.

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David Whitehead

I have always loved the British landscape – walking in it, photographing it and now, since early retirement, painting it in watercolour. I prefer to paint in the field and have experienced all the difficulties the British weather can present to a painter, from the sun drying the paint on the…

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