Brisons Veor - Pew End with Shells and Swallows

“The pew end is an example of the type of pew end that used to be found throughout the Church. It was discovered in a farm stable pigsty, covered in many layers of paint and muck and the bottom two or three inches were set in concrete.” 

I’ve been playing with swallow and shell designs. I got interested after I saw this bench end at the church in St. Just 

I also saw this sign in town 

"As for the birds of the coast-the sea-birds-the Cornish coast is the coast par excellence for the study of their lives." 

p.43, Unknown Cornwall

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Value Study - Pencil or Vellum

Gouache Study Head of Bran Swallow

I started playing with these designs

Then I started printing 

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More swallow sketches

I’m cracking back to the shells - this one was in the house/ Brisons Veor