watercolour and coloured pencil pastel Last week I took advantage of an unexpected free afternoon to go down to the beach for so...

  This is another experiment using monoprints, on the left I'd added watercolour which resisted the ink of the monoprint. There wasn...

On Friday I had the great fortune of meeting up with blogger buddy  Roger Seddon   for a sketching trip to Hengistbury Head. It was a beaut...

Phew! What a day...the workshop that I went to run by Jane Puckering  was sooooo good, one of the best ones I've ever been to. Her enthu...

 ©2011 Lisa Le Quelenec  A couple of sky studies from my sketchbook done in pastel. It was strange to see the sun turn golden inbe...

At the end of yesterday's post I wrote about the challenge  Loriann had set about painting from memory. Well today she's posted pai...

Three little cloud sketches of the skies from the studio window over the last week. The weather has been changeable and so there have bee...

Today the weather has been perfect for cloud sketching, very sunny with a brisk breeze so lots of changing cloud forms to sketch. I've...

After a day of heavy rain yesterday a little respite and time for sketching. All were done in pastel in my cachet sketch book and are s...

I thought I'd show you some of the cloud sketching that I've been doing. They are all in pastel in my Daler Rowney Cachet A5 sketchb...

I'm a bit of a magpie when it comes to colour and I have a growing collection of  pastels. I love opening a box of them to look at the s...