Winter. Ink & watercolour 28x20cm ©Sue Pownall 2016
I finished this piece a little while ago. Hope you like it.
 Children hand-in their egg hunt sheets in exchange for a Cadbury chocolate bunny. ©Sue Pownall 2016  Illustration for the Cadbury's Egg Hunt at Bourne Mill. ©Sue Pownall 2016 I was invited to sketch the Egg Hunt at Bourne Mill, a National Trust property, over the Easter weekend. Good Friday was a glorious spring day, clear skies and sunshine, and the Mill proved to be a very popular venue for an egg hunt as there were over 300 entries, so more Cadbury's bunnies were needed for the rest of the weekend. On Saturday, the forecasted rain held off and saw many more families completing the hunt. Unfortunately, due to Storm Katie and the 50pmh plus winds, the mill was closed on Easter Monday. Sitting at a picnic table alongside the pond, I sketched the children trying to solve the clues. It was funny watching many of the dads work it out, spot the eggs, almost point, then clamp their mouths shut until their son or daughter could do it.  Egg hunters. ©Sue Pownall 2016 Eggs were hidden throughout the property and I had to find places to sketch without giving the location away and refrain from looking at the eggs when children were near. Here are a couple of them:  The clue in the bug hotel. ©Sue Pownall 2016  The pit room egg. Pencil sketch. ©Sue Pownall 2016  Finally, the egg hunters returned to the desk and claimed their Cadbury's bunnies. (Top image)
Left is a photo of me sketching in the wheel room. Behind me is the wheel, which was incredibly noisy, but it was an atmospheric place to sketch. I have to confess, I am disappointed the weekend is now over as it was a great event to attend in a lovely location.  The gates are open for 2016 at the National Trust's Bourne Mill. ©SuePownall  Sitting in the gateway Today is the Spring Equinox in the northern hemisphere, and spring is one of my favourite seasons. I also like autumn ... and summer ... oh and winter if I'm inside and warm and it's snowing outside. On Wednesday, I was sketching outside in order to record the 2016 opening of the National Trust property, Bourne Mill. I'm working with the property this year, so rather than sketch the building, other than the outline, I chose to focus on the open gates. I used a Monologue sketchbook and as the photo (left) shows, I Inked on site. However, I added the watercolour added at home due to icy wind.  St. Patrick's Day. ©SuePownall  St Patrick's Day sketching with my assistant. On Thursday, Saint Patrick's Day provided the opportunity to get some green paint out as I sketched with some friends in a local pub. The above sketch was completed on site, Winsor & Newton watercolour with Staedtlar pen in A5 Daler sketchbook. More green featured this morning, which is why I'm blogging this evening, as I experimented monoprinting using a Gelli plate. Some of these prints I am thinking of working up, maybe with stencils, or watercolour, or.... not sure. Some as collage backgrounds, maybe. Whilst one will become an Easter card to send to my mum. Now, I'm looking forward to lots of garden drawing, flower sketching, and more spring printing.  Spring monoprint experiments. ©SuePownall What about you? Is spring your favourite season? What are you working on?
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I am a nomadic artist travelling the world for inspiration. Here, I publish my sketchbook work alongside my new finished pieces. 
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