I needed to visit Hessle and walked along the foreshore to the Humber Bridge. I was transfixed when I saw a curlew. It was walking on the soft exposed mud of a dyke draining into the Humber. The tide was very low. I found it difficult to believe at all the exposed mud flats in the main body of water, the Humber itself. On my way back I stopped and sat on an old concrete plinth. The top of it was uneven and it contained clear, settled water. I noticed silt had settled in these small pools. A thought hit me, I could try a quick sketch using a pen with brown ink. Then I could stir up the silt and use it as paint. So, most of this sketch has been produced using silty water. Towards the end, still using the silt laden water I used a cheap watercolour palette to add the slightest suggestion of colour, in the sky and the far river bank. With the tide turning I quickly added the Humber Bridge pylon with reflection. I also added a channel marker buoy ship?
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