Sketchbook: concertina beaches

Look at my amazing new sketchbook! It's a concertina design which looks like a regular sketchbook from the outside but stretches out accordion-style. I can't believe I haven't used it until now, I brought it out with me and test drove it last night at Barker's Beach while PT windsurfed.

Barker's Beach 1: towards Rum Point - pen and watercolour

Barker's blues 1 & 2 - watercolour, sand and pen

 

PT is lost / Barker's towards West Bay - watercolour and pen

 

In the above image, as you can tell from the title, PT got lost, the wind zoomed him up and away towards West Bay, he eventually abandoned his windsurf on the beach and we had to retrieve it with the jeep about half a mile further up the beach!

My sketches below, show PT battling the wind and the choppy waves until he disappeared from view, note the sketches which became a mere triangle, line and a dot (top of image), this was all I could make out of PT and his windsurf on the far horizon.

2010: The unnamed writer by Elise Valmorbida

Here is a mind

caught in the elision

between personal, political.

Here is a nib

charged with invisible ink

that under iron heat

turns blood-brown.

Here is a silence.

(Death happens in brackets)

but still you can hear

the bell of the voice,

chiming, tolling,

the scratching of the pen.