Something REALLY different.

 For me that is.  I paint landscapes - I have never ever painted a seascape.  But .. at the beginning of the week I walked into a room that was suffused with an amazing pink light from outside.  My phone runs on steam power and, although it was totally inappropriate for the situation, I went around looking for a 'smart' phone to take some pictures. Thank you to Penny Meaden for lending me hers and for emailing the images to me so quickly.

I started with a board coated in gesso and covered it with a thin layer of rose madder - much of the base layer can still be seen in the finished painting. I then began to work up the shapes I needed for the beach and the horizon.  For the last several months I have been working on a much smaller scale and I had forgotten how much hard work it is to cover a 4 foot wide  board!

As you can see, first go around I painted the shape I know so well - the field at home.  It just proves how necessary it is to keep drawing and drawing and drawing, the body learns the rhythms of shapes and produces them automatically.

 I decided to work with the shapes I had and continued adding colour to catch the light and serenity.

To finish I altered the shapes slightly and added the breakers. I'm quite pleased with end result, I may even paint a few more seascapes.

"Goodbye Old Friend" oil on gesso board 48" x 24"