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In comparison to yesterday’s blog, today’s will be very modest ! It’s a spread from my Southsea sketchbook depicting an onshore wind, a stormy sky and a word I don’t use very often – SPUME.  It’s difficult making the waves stand out in watercolour but the wave crashing against the foreshore has a nice ominous sky behind it and that seems to do the trick ! The afore mentioned spume or foam is naked paper, which is something I like to include when using watercolour – less is more ! The composition features a low horizon so that I could get plenty of choppy  Solent in the foreground, which sadly means there’s not much room left for my favourite part – the sky. That said, there was just enough room for the rain clouds (nimbostratus). The beach itself was also kept to a  minimum. The one thing that I hoped to generate was energy and movement. Copyright Chris N Wood all rights reserved