Thick fog, West Wittering beach by David Whitehead
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This sketch was done to try and recreate a mood. We walked on this beach in thick fog where we couldn’t see the horizon, or even the waterline. The challenge was to capture the mood of an empty, foggy beach in my travel sketchbook, on cartridge paper, which behaves very differently to watercolour paper for wet-in-wet or lifting out.
About the Artist
David Whitehead
I have always loved the British landscape – walking in it, photographing it and, 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 brush to…
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