Fossils and Dinosaurs
We are on the Isle of Wight for a short break, camping at Grange Farm Campsite. We are principally on the lookout for fossils for our Dinosaur mad son. And also looking at all the Dinosaur Museums on the island. I’m also fitting in a little sketching when I’m able to!
The Dinosaur Museums are great with some very knowledgeable people in them. It’s a fascinating island for fossils and dinosaur-related things!
Featured sketch above:
Watercolour sketch of ‘the Needles’ and its Lighthouse, from ‘the Old Battery‘.
Materials Used
These sketches are painted in a Daler Rowney, Langton 14 x 10”, ‘Not’ watercolour pad. Using my small Winsor & Newton, watercolour field paint box, with a couple of round brushes – sable no.6 & a no.1. Also used are a black brush pen, black watercolour pencil and a 6B pencil.
Neovenator Skull
Sketching in the Dinosaur Isle Museum. This is a Neovenator Skull. Neovenator is an approximately 7 metre long predatory Theropod Dinosaur. This is an A4 sketch using a 6B pencil.
St Helens Fort
Our little Ventnor Garden
Osbourne House Beach
Sandown Groyne
White Cliffs
A new day and I’m up early sketching before the other two immerge from the tent.
I love the early morning light hitting the gleaming, white cliffs on the Needles Headland. This view is from the cliff edge at the end of our campsite – I only had to walk a few paces and plonk myself down, a cup of tea in hand! Obviously, it’s a watercolour sketch, with a little black watercolour pencil over the top.
Dinosaur Footprints
Finally
Sunset over Tennyson Downs
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