I've been to actual lighthouse reference in Jake's External Environment course! 😀

[lizardillo]

This is a bit of a different post, but I just couldn't resist!

I was watching Jake's Exterior Environment Design course and when he bought up a reference image to discuss and I recognised it straight away! It's the lighthouse at Southwold, in Suffolk, England. It just happened we were going on holiday there in the next few days. I made sure I took some photos!

Here is Jake and Will talking about the image (I've added a few labels):

1 - Here I am at the actual lighthouse with my crazy frizzy camping hair and waterproofs after a 5 mile walk in the wind and rain (good old British summer!). I appear to be pointing at the lighthouse just in case you don't notice it

Number 2 on the ref image is exactly the same car that's just behind my head. (No relevance, just spotted it).

3 - Alternative POV of the lighthouse, this time from below, from the pub window, with a pint of Admans Southwold Bitter that is brewed in Admans Brewery - the blue building labelled as number 4.

5 - As its the Queen's 70th Jubilee people all over the UK have been knitting covers for the postboxes, so here is the lighthouse with a knitted lighthouse on top of the postbox. The little buildings are the pubs, not entirely sure what the snowman is for or what the lumps around the edge are.

And a bonus postbox cover just because I thought it was really good.

On a serious note Jake and Will's exterior design course is really good so I recommend it. I've not managed to do any lighthouse images yet (or any illustration for that matter) for a couple of weeks as we've been away and I have a big project on so I won't be able to in the near future unfortunately, but here are some silhouettes from previous prompt just to make this a legitimate art post relating to the course

I hope you have enjoyed your small tour of Southwold and it's lighthouse.

[PenAndrew]

@lizardillo Thanks for sharing this Liz, I have just been watching a video of the horse parade from 2nd June, what a pity to be away from the UK during this special time. Those post boxes are amazing.

[lizardillo]

@PenAndrew glad you liked it It's not a very educational post but just a bit of fun.

Yes we've had loads of things going on here. The concert was pretty big if you can get to see that somehow and the opening sketch with the queen and Paddington bear having tea together was funny.

Nearly every postbox I've seen has a knitted top on it, some clever people have really been busy!

[PenAndrew]

@lizardillo Yes, I have a 3 hour video of the trooping of the colour and I found a video of the concert and I saw something about Paddington is on that. Can't wait to see it. And I am so glad you posted it for many reasons and to see the knitted post boxes is fantastic and I think that's art! This is a legitimate post! Thanks again, would love to see more photos of the post boxes- I miss my home country and family so much after seeing your post.

[Adam Thornton 0]

@lizardillo Very cool, Liz.
Thanks for sharing that. I've not watched Jake's course yet, but happy he's included some of the UK, so look forward to seeing that.

Incidentally, here is a photo an old friend sent me yesterday from where she lives in Plymouth (UK), with another knitted pillar box!

[PenAndrew]

@Adam-Thornton-0 Brilliant- Plymouth is not far from where I lived. About 2 hours by train to Cornwall.