A blissful weekend in Cornwall

Way back in March I had a wonderful girlie weekend in Cornwall. A good friend owns a holiday home on the North Cornish coast and invited 8 of us down for a weekend of fun, feasts, walking, pampering, laughter, dancing, oh yes and did I say eating... For March in the UK, the weather was blissful - lovely and sunny with blue skies and very little wind, so we were able to enjoy the wonderful scenery.

As always, click on the images to view larger.

Here is the house and it's setting...

Some photos from in and around the house, and rocks from the beach...

On Saturday, we went for a long walk along the coastal path
I found some wonderful textures along the way...
and found the first daffodil, just coming into bloom
We ate wonderfully, so of course, I had to record that in my journal too...

The journal is not finished yet, I'm still awaiting some photos that others have promised to send, and I will add some more writing. When it is complete and bound I will do a video flip through.

This is the journal page I did when 10 of us stayed there last January.

All the pages were painted with acrylics on Fabriano Artistico watercolour paper. Sorry about the quality of the photos, I am having scanner problems at the moment...

The house is available for rental, so if you want a truly wonderful place to stay in Cornwall that sleeps up to 14 people check out their website, but be warned it books up quickly.

Pembrokeshire Travel Journal

Had a wonderful week in Pembrokeshire - the first time I have taken a vacation in Wales and it hasn't rained all the time. We only had one really wet day, so were able to take advantage of the wonderful beaches in this part of the world. A couple of good surfing beaches too, so we had lots of fun body boarding.

Still working on my travel journal, but here are a few pages...

These were mainly done with Pitt Artist Pen, Watercolour pencils and a waterbrush, but some were watercolour paint.

Cliff Hollow Cornwall

Had a great girlie weekend away in Cornwall at a holiday home of a friend. The colour of the landscape was perfect for my new graphitint pencils.
My scanner does not render green well, so the colour is not too accurate on this scan.

Cornwall - Eden Project WeeMan

Cornwall07-Eden Project WeeMan
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Another amazing sculpture at the Eden Project - THE WEEE MAN (stands for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) - view the large size to read all about him.

We had a lot of fun trying to make out all the different things he was made of - the teeth were rather intriguing, then we realised they were computer mice! Do a Flickr search on WEEE to see lot's more photos of him.

Certainly got us thinking about what we will buy (and discard) in the future...

Cornwall - Making dens at the Eden Project

Cornwall07-Eden Project Den
Originally uploaded by JournalEYES

A great family activity - making Dens. We thought we had a great design until a strong gust of wind blew...

Cornwall - The Eden Project

Cornwall07-Eden Project
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We visited the Eden Project - a fantastic day out. It is a conservation project created out of old China Clay pits. It now houses geodesic biodomes which replicate temperate and sub-tropical climates.

The drawing is of an amazing sculpture near the main entrance, it is made with driftwood.

Cornwall Map

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Map of South East Cornwall where we spent a week's holiday this August. I traced the map and transferred it into my Moleskine sketchbook, then annotated the map to show the places we had visited.

Scents of France

A wonderful idea taken directly from Dory Kanter's book "Art Escapes" to document the scents and aromas of your trip

Watercolour on watercolour paper