This is my entry for bleak, I am not sure if its bleak enough!
Its an old coast guard post at Dungeness on the south coast of England.This area has a lot of old railway carriages that have been turned into homes they all lie in the shadow of dungeness nuclear power station on a massive area of shingle [the largest shingle habitat in the world] it is a weird but fascinating place the wind rips across the exposed landscape and the waves make a fantastic noise as they roll the stones back and forth and its one of those places that seems to have a “big sky” that Artists talk about.
Take a look at it on the web.
Film producer Derek Jarman lived here before his death and had a garden amongst the shingle that was well known.
A site well known for its bird life and sea fishing.The sea is just beyond the shingle ridge behind the buildings.
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2009Sep 14tags: Bleak | kirbysartIt was a stormy Monday and Tuesday was just as bad…… Heres a bleak looking evening. At night, and rainy. It has been for the last few days. On the upside I was headed to get some ice cream.
~Kirby
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2009Sep 12tags: Bleak | September 09 | Theme Challenge | tree | watercolorWatercolor and fountain pen in a Moleskine Watercolor Journal. The fountain pen was almost out of ink, so I diluted it. This caused the ink to fade as I drew the tips of the branches.
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2009Sep 4tags: Bleak | Ostende. | September 09 | Theme ChallengeI went to the North Sea in Ostende, Belgium, with my daughters, on the august 29th it was cold, grey, windy, a little bit sad. But nice for paintings !!!
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2009Sep 4tags: Bleak | September 09 | Theme ChallengeDesert wood, for the September challenge: bleak.
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2009Sep 2tags: Bleak | September 09 | Theme ChallengeBleak fishing – Ink in a Watercolour Moleskine
I sketched these two guys, yesterday, from the comfort of my car. I’m not sure they appreciated my interest as the conditions got wetter and wetter. I was quite safe as there was a stretch of water between us. They must be keen.
PS I’m sending some of this rain to all you drought stricken Moleskiners. We are fed up with it.
It should arrive in about nine days.
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2009Sep 2tags: Bleak | September 09 | Theme ChallengeBleak
I was thinking about this month’s theme challenge and came up with this idea…decided to try it out and I think it came out all right. The scanner washed out the horizon line, but I think the feeling of a bleak, desolate landscape still came through.























