Cornish Wall by Tessa Gwynne

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I live in Cornwall and the walls are are wonderful features which you capture perfectly

Posted by Jonathan Davidson on Thu 30 Apr 11:00:20

Great drawing Tessa

Posted by Heather Love on Thu 30 Apr 11:14:00

Brilliant sketching and observation Tessa.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Thu 30 Apr 12:27:25

Lovely drawing Tessa..my favourite place.. I have been there 3 summers and endless ocean watching..

Posted by Nandhini J Prasad on Thu 30 Apr 12:39:55

Thank you Jonathan, lucky chap living there! Many thanks Heather and Michael for your kind and encouraging comments , and thanks Nandhini , yes I love the ocean watching also, could sit for hours watching the waves roll in!

Posted by Tessa Gwynne on Thu 30 Apr 12:45:10

Lovely sketch Tessa and looking at your wall I would say it's slate.

Posted by Linda Drury on Thu 30 Apr 12:59:00

great drawing

Posted by Janet Jackson on Thu 30 Apr 13:08:51

Lovely drawing Tessa, and yes many walls in Devon and Cornwall are built of slate. If not they are granite, but these are the former. I'm a local.

Posted by Linda Wilson on Thu 30 Apr 13:09:49

Many thanks Janet, Linda D and Linda W! Glad to have it confirmed as slate. I remember when we first went to my friends holiday home there, being told to be extra careful driving along the narrow roads, as those lovely green roadside hedges are NOT soft, walls underneath!

Posted by Tessa Gwynne on Thu 30 Apr 13:59:48

As you know I love and sketch walls etc. These slates are very very good !

Posted by Richard Cooper on Thu 30 Apr 14:08:09

I do know Richard! Can’t beat a good wall, especially a broken tumbledown one. 😀

Posted by Tessa Gwynne on Thu 30 Apr 14:19:41

Excellent Tessa, will make a superb painting.

Posted by Paul (Dixie) Dean on Thu 30 Apr 15:01:36

Makes you wonder what beasties are lurking in those holes. Fab sketch

Posted by Jen Edwards on Thu 30 Apr 20:57:30

Thank you Dixie and Jennifer, hadn’t thought of beasties!

Posted by Tessa Gwynne on Thu 30 Apr 21:28:10

Hang on Studio Wall

30/04/2020

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A fountain pen A5 sketch from photos taken on the coast path near Trevone a few years ago. Our art group have taken a week in September there for some years and this is done with a view to a painting later. I think the walls are made of slate, but maybe stone?

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Tessa Gwynne

I have returned to painting over the last sixteen years or so, having relocated from Cardiff to the Cotswolds in 2009 and joined the Guiting Power Art Group. Although I did a year's Foundation Course at Cardiff art college after leaving school, I hadn’t painted much in the interim, except for a few…

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