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.

Natural collection | Isle of Islay

Isle of Islay 

Recently i have started to collect nature from different locations, I have started to get my family to help and on a recent trip to the Isle of Islay my brother collected lots of natural objects from the beaches in the island. There were bits of sea glass and shells as well as a pretty interesting crab claw. 

Natural collection | Southword

Southwold

The beach is by far my favourite place to be, different beaches offer different inspiration. On a windy day of the summer I went to Southwold determined to find some sea glass. My day wasn't very successful in collecting the sea glass but i did find some other interesting bits and pieces along the coast line.

Natural collection | Great Yarmouth

Great Yarmouth 

On a spontaneous roadtrip to great yarmouth one sunny day I did a quick collection and sketch of what was around me. This was a very sandy beach with not many shells but a lot of sea weed and driftwood.

Natural collection | Rhodes greece

Rhodes greece

Travelling  is always a great way to experience and see new things. I took my drawing equipment on holiday with me to see what i could be inspired by. Shells always inspire me but unfortunately the beach in my resort had hardly any, fortunately the man made beach had some very interesting stones and sea glass to collect.

I loved the different flowers and trees that the hotel had and i found myself using parts of the palm trees as a drawing surface for a bit of fun.