Seaside
Posted: June 23, 2023 Filed under: Penny Black, seaside, Stamped Landscapes | Tags: Fabriano Watercolour Paper, Penny Black stamps, Ranger Distress inks 9 Comments
This image brings back so many memories for me. I love the ocean and beach so approaching the water down a sand covered path makes me very happy. I spent my first ten years in Tasmania and we had beach holidays at St Helens. After we moved to Canberra our family would go to Bateman’s Bay then in later years Bateau Bay and Port Macquarie. When I visit my Dad on the Central Coast we will sometimes walk along Soldiers Beach or just drive there to watch it during a storm.
To create a sandy background I swiped a piece of hot pressed watercolour paper through some smooshed yellow inks. It gave an uneven coverage which I left to dry before stamping. Using a stamp positioner I stamped first the fence posts in grey and brown then inked and stamped the grasses with a couple of green markers. I stamped the sea in uncharted mariner(of course) then the shadows in the sand with fossilized amber.
The initial stamping on hot pressed watercolour paper is always a bit patchy so I keep the panel in the positioner so I can restamp certain areas to build up depth of colour. I also use a paintbrush or markers to add colour directly to the panel. I painted the sky with broken china ink and finally added white dots to the ocean with a white gel pen. Now if I could just get to the ocean as easily as stamping the ocean…
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Heather Telford 
Nice to see your new post Heather! Smooshing and stamping are almost always so lovely, it seems you don’t have many “rejects” and know how to turn the “imperfect” into beautiful and interesting! Thanks for taking the time to post and explain!
I love the journeys you take us on. The real coast and exciting places make the card extra special. Thank you for sharing.
Tish Rowe
Absolutely wonderful. Such an uplifting sight.
So lovely! I had a recent trip to Australia & spent a lovely week in Port Macquarie!
Oh, I LOVE this…I just want to go to the beach and walk and walk and walk!♥☺
What a gorgeous stamp and what a beautiful way you presented it. The water looks SO inviting. You captured the sand making it look like a bright, sunny day. Also love the way you shaded the pathway.
Beautiful beach scene, Heather. It looks so peaceful … I would like to be there. 🙂 xx
What a beautiful and atmospheric scene Heather, and you have given it the look of a wonderful hot sunny day…perfect! x
And the picture you have presented could have been at any of the places named and remembered. Yesterday I took Laura to the nearest coast at Soldiers Beach where the sea had all the colours you have captured and more. Magnificent and so different from the raging, frothoing waves of a few days earlier. ND