watercolour seascape in asturias, spain

Seascape sketch in pen and watercolour
Seascape sketch in pen and watercolour

In this lesson we paint my favourite beach on the north coast of Spain. There's a small island, rocks, crashing waves and little waves lapping the beach. A bit of everything you'd find at a beach :-)

I've sketched this in my sketchbook in just the same way as if I had been sitting on the beach and painting on location.

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One of my all-time favourite paintings of a stormy day in a ruined Roman town in Spain.

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