Natural collection | Ibiza

Ibiza


I found my very first sea urchins when i went on holiday this year, although I maybe have accidentally crushed one. I did some quick watercolour painting of the broken sections of sea urchin is still had left. The work isn't very detailed but I really like painting the pieces so they are arranged on the page. 

Im really inspired by a recent book i have brought as well. The cabinet of natural curiosities by Albertus Seba is a massive book filled with so many natural illustrations that he did in the 18th century. Its filled with animals and plants, as well as my favourite which is shells and coral. There is an amazing page filled with illustrations of all the different sea urchin shells.  

Natural collection | Ibiza

Ibiza 

i spent a week in ibiza at the start of september, we were in a hotel just outside Sante Eulalia. The nearest beach I found happened to be really good for collecting things like sea glass and pottery, also found a couple of sea urchins shells which I had never seen before. 

I found lots of different colours of sea glass as well as the more common green colour, blue was my favourite. I had never found sea pottery with patterns on either so I was quite excited about that. The most common shells in ibiza seemed to be a orange shell. I found it more fun doing watercolour illustrations of the shards of broken shell then the full shells I found. 

I like to keep a collection of beaches in bottles and jars to remind me of all the different shells and interesting things I could find on that beach.