Here are a few selections of sketches I did during my week on the Gower peninsula, south Wales at the end of June 2012. Most of these were done in an from my A4 sketchbook, often spread across two pages, using watercolour, water soluble pastels, pencil and pen.
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| Clouds breaking over The Mumbles, 24/06/12 - done of the first day of the holiday, walking from Mumbles, around Mumbles Head to Langland Bay |
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| Pennard Castle from Three Cliffs Bay - walked to Three Cliffs Bay from the cottage at Langland Bay on the Monday, 25/06/12. Colourful wild flowers growing on the vegetated dunes of Pennard Burrows and the backshore of the bay. |
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| Three Cliffs Bay, Pennard Pill in the foreground view from Pennard Castle ruins; a stream fed by springs issuing from the Carboniferous Limestone to the north. The headland in the far distance is Oxwich Point. 25/06/12 |
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| Pwlldu Head from the West. A wave cut platform of Carboniferous Limestone exposed as the tide ebbed on my walk back from Three Cliffs Bay, 25/06/12 |
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| Pencil sketch of Worms Head from Rhossili, 28/06/12, walking from Fall Bay to the coastguard station (hut on the cliff top). Carbonfierous Limestone Cliffs with variable dip. The thick sea fog we'd arrived in cleared at lunchtime revealing the view of the islands at Worms Head. Tide in during the afternoon, so island off-limits. |
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| Carboniferous Limestone in the cliffs at Fall Bay near Rhossili, 28/06/12. |
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| Another visit to Three Cliffs Bay, this time walking along the shore at Pennard Common, 29/06/12. The tide was coming in, giving a more limited view of the beach than there had been on Monday. Brighter and clearer weather than we'd had during the middle of the week, though it felt chilly drawing into the wind. |
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| Another visit to Three Cliffs Bay, this time walking along the shore at Pennard Common, 29/06/12. Brighter and clearer weather than we'd had during the middle of the week, though it felt chilly drawing into the wind.
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