1. Create a title page and mind map about "The Sea" using found or computer typography and images. Research seascape artists like Len Tabner. 2. Create a mood board of seascape artists and mind map words related to the sea. Research artists Len Tabner or Kurt Jackson and create a color response. 3. Take photos by the sea and visit a sea-related exhibition. Choose a painting and create a color study response using materials like fabric painting.

1. 1 - Create a Title Page & Mind Map for ‘The Sea’
Complete a title page for The Sea – you might use
found, hand written or computer typography. You may
combine image and text on your Title page or just Text
with a textured background.
You might use dafont.com to find a suitable piece of typography
The Sea

2. Maggi Hambling
Rearing Wave 2015
Andre Derain London 1906 The effect of the sun on the water,
JMW Turner Sea View c.1826John Constable Rainstorm over the sea’, 1824
Kurt Jackson Catch the light
Utagawa Hiroshige - 'The Sea
off Satta in Suruga Province’
Len Tabner North Yorkshire
2. Seascape Artist Mood Board

3. 3. Mindmap – Create a mindmap / wordle / word list about the sea e.g.
boats, harbours, boat house, fish and fisherman!
Look at the blog entry for 12 August
for more hints about a mindmap

4. 4 & 5 Artist research of Len Tabner or Kurt Jackson
and create your own colour response
Len Tabner was born in South Bank on the River Tees near
Middlesbrough. His father had been a merchant seaman and Tabner
remains fascinated by the grim grandeur of the industrial northeast. He
lives a few hundred yards from the highest cliffs in England, at 650 feet
above the sea, and near the potash mine in Boulby—the deepest mine
in Europe.. “It is a landscape of extremes and frequently of violent
weather. But Tabner is not an artist to stay huddled indoors in his studio.
He is to be found on the beach with his easel weighted down against the
wind or, like Turner, on board a ship in a gale. His paintings have a sense
of urgency perhaps due to painting en plein air.

5. 6 & 7 Charcoal and Ink studies use Len Tabner or Kurt Jackson

6. Cloud studies Constable 1821-1825

7. 8 & 9 Artist research of Steve Gascoigne and
create your own photographic or colour response
Steve Gascoigne started taking photos of the Isle
of Wight in 2000 and set up his business
Available Light based in Newport.
He was a professional photographic printer for
10 years, later he started producing stunning
landscape and seascape photographs of the
Island with the clever use of light.
I went to see his photographs in his Newport
gallery and found his images show the island at
magical times of day the ‘golden or blue hour’
without people, like a silent retreat from the
stress of busy every day life.

8. 10 & 11 Take photos by the sea and go
to a sea related exhibition
• Go to see an exhibition which is showing
something related to the sea, boats, sea
creatures, fish, island life.
• Go to an exhibition whilst you are on holiday
or try on the island - Quay Arts at Medina or
Seaview Art Gallery, Kendalls Fine Art Gallery
in Cowes or the Classic Boat Museum Gallery
in East Cowes

9. 12 Bonchurch Exhibition
• Include photos of artists
you liked from the
exhibition.
• Choose one to write
briefly about and
complete a colour study.
– use any materials e.g.
fabric painting or applique
might be a response for the
painting opposite.

10. Contact Sheet – Ventnor Beach
I like the sunset on this image and
the silhouette in the foreground.
It makes it look idyllic.
The red sunset on the
cliffs makes this image
look nice.
The way your eye is led across the page in this image makes it
successful, though it is quite dark. I think it would look good on a
poster because it shows a peaceful view of the island that would suit
This is my top pick for my poster
because the way the light hits
the rocks on the beach in the
foreground, I feel, it really
captivating and will look good
on a poster.
Horizon is too tilted to use on a
poster.
Too bright.
Too dark.
Foreground isn’t level.
Example:
13,15,17

11. 14, 16, 18
Enlarge best images (least two A4
pages per photoshoot) for Ventnor,
Bonchurch and Steephill Cove.

12. Crop and make basic edits to photos including saturation, brightness and contrast

13. Photocollages of images taken at Ventnor Beach

14. 19 Victorian Painters on IOW
• In artistic terms perhaps the most important venue on the Isle of Wight from the 1840s was the
village of Bonchurch, just to the east of Ventnor. The beach and coastline proved a particular
attraction for artists, who portrayed the activities of crab and lobster fishermen going about
their work along the shore. Peter De Wint OWS (1784- 1849) painted ‘Bringing in the Catch at
Ventnor’ in 1814. He made several drawings about this time that were, later, included in W. B.
Cooke’s ‘Picturesque Delineation of the South Coast of England’ (Cooke, 182624).
• A school of artists developed at Bonchurch, with Seaside Cottage on the shore being rented
annually by a succession of eminent names including Edward William Cooke RA, Clarkson
Stanfield, Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham NWS (1823-1875) and Thomas Miles Richardson
Jnr RSA RWS (1813-1890). There is a remarkable similarity in the technique adopted by artists
like Richardson, Rowbotham, George James Knox (1810-1897) and Isle of Wight artist William
Gray (fl.1835-1883). Their rich ‘Mediterranean’ palate with the extensive use of heightening
with white is typical, and it is almost certain that the prolific Island topographical artist, Gray,
was a pupil and painting companion of Richardson and Rowbotham. On one occasion in 1861
the latter two artists painted an identical scene of a coal boat being unloaded on the beach at
Bonchurch.
• The important Victorian watercolourist Myles Birket Foster RWS (1825-1899) and his family
moved to Bonchurch, renting the seaside villa, Winterborne, for a period of recuperation from
tuberculosis. Whilst living there, he produced at least ten fine watercolours of children on the
beach at Bonchurch.
• ’At Bonchurch’ by Edward William Cooke RA (c.1850). Cooke produced numerous ‘geological’
pictures such as this on the Isle of Wight coast between Ventnor and Shanklin. A follower of the
Pre-Raphaelite School, Cooke painted extremely accurately and his work was greatly admired
by the Victorian art critic, John Ruskin.
Ventnor from Flowersbrook' by William
Wells Quatermain c1860.
Edward William Cooke in the shadow of
Bonchurch Wells Quatermain c1860.
Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. On The Shore, Bonchurch

15. Seascape Study with Rain Cloud (c.1824)
20. Create an A4 Artist study from your artist mood board or one of the images here
John Constable

16. Create an art work (using any material) based on one of these paintings or detail from the painting you must use colour.
Fauvist
Andre
Derain

17. Kurt Jackson

18. JMW Turner

19. Make one or more Sea inspired
collages of the sea, boats,
harbous, lighthouses, fish, fishing
cottages etc.
Look at my Pinterest page on Sea,
boats and harbours for ideas.
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/tigersushi13/

20. John Piper – collage and mixed Media
Use maps, magazines, newspaper, fabric,
tissue or sugar paper or found objects.