- Block in dark tones, simplify shapes and build details from there
- keep brush strokes lively (blending not really needed)
- don’t get caught up in unnecessary detail
- details don’t need to be precise just an impression
- you don’t need every colour under the sun but warm pale yellow puts the sunshine in, and cerulean blue is handy at the seaside!
- keep hydrated
- unsaturated colours = tonal value
- if the sun is out, the colours will be brighter
- DRAW!
- Do a notan sketch
- you don’t need a fancy easel – David Curtis’s is £30 from an antique shop but when the tide came in he rescued it first!
Susanna Heath 
What a fantastic place to be sketching outdoors…so much to choose from…!
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It’s amazing! It did take longer to choose a subject matter than to do a sketch. One of those places where wherever you settled you’d have a fabulous view.
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Yes sometimes I just have to force yourself to stop and sketch!!
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I had to do that, but choose a small section, not the full 180, lol.
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Even then there was so much in one scene, it was a struggle to not try to fit it all in.
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