Coastal Sounds
In this session we took a trip to the seaside, listening to carefully curated coastal sounds from the British Library’s sound archive. From the calls of Herring Gulls to the familiar sounds of walking on the seaside shingle, we transported ourselves to the beach.
Start by listening to some of the sounds from the session and looking at participants work.
By Faye: Gradient painted background of orange and yellow. Paint strokes of dark purple and black in bottom left corner, with a wide stripe of blue tissue paper horizontally across the page.
By Phil: Tissue paper green background with a blue sky and yellow sun. Cut out tissue paper waves in blue and yellow with orange rocks.
By Sarah: Colourful paint splurges in almost circles in yellow,w green, orange and pink. Combined with colourful splatters and blue paint strokes.
By Phil: Left hand of the page with abstract painting of trees and sunshine in blue and yellow.
By Faye: Stormy blue painted sea with cut out of a white boat precariously placed in waves, with foreboding painted sky behind.
Sarah: stormy seascape in wavy brushstrokes of blue, green, yellow, red, orange and black and a pebble beach in the bottom right hand corner.
By Fergus: Alternating vertical stripes of green and orange tissue paper with charcoal vertical marks. Paintings of gold and red shapes, sounded by marks and suns.
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British Library
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