Along the coast

The weather on our second day away was horrible.  Rain and fog.  It was a beautiful day at home so that was a bit annoying.  We still went out and about.  Roger had to rethink the walk!  That was fine with me.

We drove to Hunstanton and Brancaster.  We stopped off at the RSPB reserve but decided against paying to go in as the weather was still miserable.  We continued to Wells-Next-The-Sea.

This beautiful sculpture gets flooded by the tide but sadly we only saw the North Norfolk coast with the tide out.

As it was still not brightening up we went to check in at our hotel in Burnham Market.  However when we got there the hotel had changed management and the booking agent had not sent them our booking. The young couple who had taken over the hotel are lovely and they set up a room for us.

The weather improved slightly.  As in, it stopped raining.  It was still dull but worth going back to Titchwell RSPB reserve and walking to the beach.  We saw lots of birds but we don't have a clue what we saw, apart from the gulls!

 However the beach was absolutely covered in shells and starfish

A closeup of the shell above

And a few photos of the birds on the beach.  I do love monochrome photos.

Thanks for joining me today.  Next time,  tidal creeks and a windmill.
Bernice

Yes! We went away

For the first time since March 23rd I travelled more than 30 minutes away from home and stayed out over night.  I felt like I was playing truant the whole journey to King's Lynn.  We had originally booked hotels for Tuesday night and Wednesday night but last Sunday we decided we would leave a day early.  We booked into a B&B for Monday night in Kings Lynn.

We arrived in time to have a walk around Kings Lynn before checking in.

The metalwork above the jailhouse door.

Beautiful historical streets.

With little alley ways to peek into.

Along the waterfrontA

Be prepared for at least two more posts next week about Norfolk.  I've a lot of photos of sailing dinghies beached with the tide way out of sight!

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

Text, Texture, Textiles

Last week saw the start of new year and a new theme with the Art Textile Group at Littleheath Barn.  The theme for the year is Text, Texture, Textiles.  We started with working on text in our sketchbooks.  I started by using the words walk, path, steps - with 2 crayons taped together.

Using different colours and directions.

Using an italic dip pen and inks

Weaving strips from a magazine page with a paper with writing Simon Sonsino style.

Using a wax candle and watercolour

I drew boxes to experiment with text.

This page is ready for play. It has two rectangles cut out so you can see the page behind.

I played with words cut from the National Trust magazine. As I had two copies of the same magazine, I cut the same words from each. On this page I put the words the right way up and in line.

On the next page I used the same words much more randomly.

These words were taken mostly from the Ramblers magazine.

I scanned the last two pages and printed them out.  I cut the prints into strips and wove them together.

I scanned the weaving into my computer and played with the scale. I printed these out and played again.

I found this page in the National Trust magazine.

I stuck the picture upside down in my sketchbook and stuck squares of the weaving print onto it, having first cut letters out.

I still have all these prints to play with!

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice