Module 6 Creative Conservation Introduction

This is a brief introduction.
This is Module 6 where I look at the colours of sea and sky, exploring different drawing techniques.
There will be mixes of colour and texture translated into fabric and stitch to produce a wall hanging related to conservation on the topic of pollution.

I am collecting colour photographs including not only the sea but rivers and other water features and different skies.
I have taken new photographs and explored my collection to pick out different waters and skies from North Wales and elsewhere in the world from holidays.  As yet I have not defined them into a collection from different times of the day or seasons, but tried to gather those using different colours and textures in the surfaces and different weather conditions.

I am also starting to look at different painters and photographers who use water and sky as their inspiration. 
So far I've found a super book by Katharine Lochnan, 'Turner Whistler Monet'  which has a chapter 'The poetics of pollution' which highlights how pollution in London and elsewhere inspired their work.  Many fabulous illustrations.
Also, I went to a water colour demonstration by Frank Green a Liverpudlian who paints buildings before demolition, but he also captures weather, water and sky in several of his watercolour paintings around Liverpool.  The example in the demonstration was of Penmaenmawr seashore with amazing storm clouds, early morning, which I managed to photograph near by, later on the same day (second photo).

Here is just one or two photographs showing contrasts in weather, colour and texture.
Picture 4 was at Farncombe at the end of a busy Summer School day!