My Mallorcan sketches

All my sketches from our Mallorcan Holiday in the beautiful Soller Valley:

 

Puerto Soller boatyard - our breakfast view over a cappuccino con crema & Napolitano chochlatino (not sure about the spelling!)

 Can Prohom high above the Soller Valley - good welcome and good cake and fresh orange.

 Soller Cathedral - right hand entrance porch from over a cool Coke at Café Aro at Placa Constitucio.

 Placa d' Espanya at Fornalutx where we met the Policia Locale who helped find the wallet I lost last September

 Fishing boats in the corner of the marina at Puerto Soller below the old monastery now a maritime museum.

 The old monastery at Puerto Soller viewed from lunchtime at the Nautilus Bar. The view vertically down to the Mediterranean is absolutely spectacular!

I was sitting under the ramp up to the Town Hall in Soller at the Placa Constituticio to sketch this one looking towards the Carrer de Vives. This was my final sketch.

 The Tobacos at Placa Constitucio, Soller over a cool San Miguel at Bar Firo

The upper lighthouse overlooking the Puerto Soller Bay. This sketch is from over lunch at the picnic tables to the Refugi.

 

The lower and disused lighthouse at the entrance to Puerto Soller - looks good from any direction!

This was the view from our first cappuccino and cake breakfast in the Port. I wasn't quite warmed up.

Manarola, Liguria, Italy

Manarola one of the 5 towns of the Cinque Terre, Liguria, Italy.... just 4 more to paint in pen and watercolour!

Comogli, Italy

The finished (maybe) work. thought I'd try a low angle shot with my camera phone again. It's "very colourful" I've been told!

Old Monastery Puerto Soller

The Old Monastery (now a Nautical Museum) above Puerto Soller, Mallorca. This view is from the outside area to the coffee shop where I consumed my cappuccino on several hot and sunny mornings. It's a view I've drawn/painted this view many times on our holidays to the Port over the past 15 years.

Sunset bar at the Nautilus, Puerto Soller, Mallorca

The first sketch from our holiday in Puerto Soller, Mallorca. Lunchtime at the sunset bar at the Nautilus. There was a 200 foot drop down to the Mediterranean on the left! I didn't take any equipment out, so daughter Sian tore a sheet out of her sketchbook and loaned me a pen and some watercolours. She was keener than me to sketch... at last I've passed on the baton!

Hotel Zone west of Funchal, Madeira

Last sketch from Madeira - the Hotel Zone west of Funchal drawn from another extended coffee stop - this time at the Café Quasbar . The Atlantic was swelling up as usual but not enough to stop a couple of intrepid swimmers in the foreground risking a quick dip. It was one of the few places around where you could walk down a (pebbly) beach into the ocean. Most people were sun-bathing. It's all too hot for me!

Tree with Atlantic Ocean beyond

Another coffee time view from the Magic Café - looking south - there's a 100 foot drop down to the Atlantic beyond the tree and planting.

Whitby boats

My latest boat painting - another from Whitby

Venice Rialto Working Boats

It was snowing yesterday which made us late to Palmers Café so I didn't have time to do the usual sketch for Ezra's Diary. Also too wet, cold and snowy to go to Heely Art Club's Tuesday evening meeting so I roughed this out in pencil - I'm going to finish it in acrylics. Thought I'd get the bridge arch correct, so I got my drawing compass out. Must be the first time in 15 years! Good job I didn't bin it when I started doing AutoCAD in 1997. The painting will be for the Great Sheffield Art Show in July - hope it'll get selected. 5 more paintings to go by April 13! I'm going to finish it in the style of my Blog 21 August 2013.

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The good ship Gratitude at Whitby Harbour - in acrylic

More Boats

2 more boats somewhere in the English Channel

Spinnaker at Lizard Point - English Channel

Spinnaker at Lizard Point - English Channel. Another scanned copy of one of my paintings from the early 90's

This is one of my boat series images which I painted in the cold and snowy Spring we had earlier this year. My memory of Whitby - with a bit of artistic license. I seem the have produced more boat images than anything else this year... my "Boatspring"!

Still Thursday 18 July - now afternoon. I sketched this fishing boat CK109 "Boy Michael" from the same shaded spot as this morning but looking north across Weymouth Harbour. A couple of young women came up to me and said I shouldn't be hiding away with a drawing like this - I had to tell them I was only hiding from the sun! What a nice thing for them to say.

Thursday 18 July Weymouth Harbour with that huge catamaran ferry (sketched on 17 July) on the left of the drawing. I sketched this one in the shade of a tiny sales kiosk on the right bank - moving around in it's shadow in synchronicity with the sun.

The boat with no name

Wednesday 17 July. Left bank of Weymouth Harbour again - experiment with a really dark background. The boat had no name and number - the name on the lifebelt on board had the first part worn off but ended with the letters "hlade". Wonder what sort of life it had.

Weymouth Harbour Dorset UK, Wednesday 17 July. I arrive at the right bank at 11 o'clock to see this oversized toy boat! I was the Ferry to the Channel Islands. I didn't know when it was due to leave so I got my pen, paints and smooth paper (not my usual textured watercolour paper) for an extra speedy sketch. 11.30 there was a frightening loud blast on it's horn, the engines shook the whole harbour when they were fired up and the huge catamaran took off backwards. End of sketch.

The fishing boat FY33 "Caralee" at Weymouth Harbour

Tuesday 16 July. The fishing boat FY33 "Caralee" at Weymouth Harbour with the Pavilion behind. Still sweltering hot - only shade was in Weymouth Sailing Club Boatyard where I was locked in! Climbed over the gate to get out and was told off by one of the members of the Club. I suffer for my Art!

Ships at Portland Harbour (Dorset UK).

Monday afternoon 15 July - 2 sisters at Portland Harbour (Dorset UK). In the background you can see yachts sailing round last year's Olympic course. The 2 young men swimming in the foreground were cooling off and showing off in front of their girlfriends.

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Boats at Chesil Beach, Portland, UK

 

 

Last week Monday morning 15 July. Boats on the Chiswell/Fortuneswell end of Chesil Beach, Isle of Portland, Dorset, UK. Chesil Beach (or Bank) is a spit of shingle and pebbles 18 miles long, 50 feet high. Portland stone has been used over the centuries in the UK to construct many of the Government and Public Buildings in London.