Cosmo likes local, that is what’s called the normal walk. Now the schools are back and the early evenings are not so warm and sunny the normal walk is back on the agenda. Most of the summer we have to find non coastal or the more remote parts of the coast, because Cosmo does like a cheeky banger, or a burger. He does not mind if it is stolen or begged for, burnt or slightly raw, they are all great.
‘BBQ’s on the beach… wow…what can be better than that and I’ll have my tea when I get back, a win double……….. oh happy days’.
Not every one on the beach has the same opinion, I have had it explained to me very loudly on occasion that, ‘ tea has been ruined and would I replace the chips that are now inedible….!’
Sometimes other people encourage Cosmo and happily share their meal with him. Trouble with that is he believes everyone will have that approach.
So to avoid confusion,embarrasment and traumertized children summer walks along the beach are best avoided.
Just before our local walk I had compiled an indiginous colour chart or sample board about my new paints. These are the colours I have made from the cliffs at Reculver. I have given them all names which relate to exactly where the pigments came from. Westgate White for example is chalk taken from Westgate, a little further along the coast where the geology changes and the chalk cliffs of Thanet appear in the landscape. Another example is Reculver Red, this is Reculver Yellow (deep) wrapped in silver foil and burnt in a bonfire. Laylandii black is charcoal made in the same bonfire from twigs from the Laylandii trees that used to be in our back garden.
So my return to painting has slowly begun. I like local in a different way from Cosmo.
The term ‘indiginous colour’ is something I have to explore.
