Created in Borth

Whilst in Borth I did some art work using fabric, charcoal, block paints, soft pastels and oil pastels, concentrated watercolour and indigo ink.

I purchased the block paint to use with the stones on the beach and to get a bit of Suzy Ray look.  I applied some paint to the stones and then pressed the fabric over them which gave mixed results so I tried it the other way round i.e. pushing the stone onto the fabric.

this is fabric pressed over the stone which has given a firm shape of the stone 

a different larger stone using the same process, with soft pastel in orange drawn around the edge of the stone 

adding another stone using paint and pastel on the same fabric 

charcoal rubbed over stones on cotton fabric - stone shapes can be clearly seen

using string found on the beach, I painted it with block paint and then pressed it into the fabric and it gave these interesting lines

Reflection: I feel the best thing to come out of this work is using the seaweed and rope by dragging it down the fabric.  Also the charcoal rubbings are interesting.    I could see the charcoal fabric mounted and panoramic - simple without embellishing

similarly with this piece of rope I painted it and pressed it onto my fabric