Sketches From The Field

Views from a fold-up chair. Drawings done the old-fashioned way.

Anyone can take a photo - even me.

These are not photographic representations, they are pictures drawn in the field based on what I could see in front of me.

Extraneous detail is removed and the overall layout is simplified for clarity.

This is about making a picture, not taking one.

A number of these sketches are no longer in my possession.

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'Compass Cottage' - Porthleven.

A lovely cottage.

We spent a week here in January 2019.

Another picture using 'wide angle perspective', see below.

'Mariners II' - Porthleven.

We spent Christmas 2018 here (and recommend it highly). It 's perched atop the seawall where the legendary storm waves break. No storms this time though.

This is a further experiment with 'wide angle perspective' as with the church at Zennor below. Drawing from close to the subject means that each major part of the building is viewed from a different angle giving it an odd appearance. The idea is to cause the viewer to keep looking in order to reconcile the lines. There's a painting of a lighthouse inside the house in which the rings around the tower are clearly 'wrong' - they kept me looking again and again.

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Ereiniog Cottage, Cwmystradllyn, Snowdonia.

The main block, to the rear, was built in 1545. It features a narrow precarious spiral staircase set within the thick end wall on the right.

This is the first picture signed "Siemarque".

The Ship Inn, Porthleven.

Looking west across the harbour entrance.

The bend in the road on the left is where people come to watch the enormous storm waves for which this village is famous.

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The Mousehole, Mousehole.

From halfway along the northern harbour wall.

The shop is actually called 'The Moushole' and so is the village.

Be there for Tom Bawcock's Eve every 23rd December.

The Clock Tower, Porthleven.

Looking along the south side of the harbour from almost the same spot as the sketch of the Ship Inn above.

The building's real name is the Bickford-Smith Institute - or even 'the 'Bickford-Smith Scientific & Literary Institute.

The iconic building is the subject of so many paintings, drawings & photos - if it were a person it would be insufferable.

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Saint Senara's Church at Zennor.

From the corner of the church yard.

The pub across the road had live music that afternoon. They took a 45 minute break which proved to be the highlight of the gig.

Note the perspective caused by being

unable to sit far enough away.

I think it's the best bit of the picture.

The Church Of St. Keverne.

From a large and very crowded cemetery.

Quite the place to be buried it seems.

At one point I was approached by a big guy in motorbike leathers head to toe who turned out to be the Vicar.

There is a large gun by the entrance which may be pointing at the Methodists down the road.

Derelict Engine House, Pendeen.

From a field entrance across the road (B3318).

This is one of a pair of crumbling monuments on a farm outside the village.