I am painting my largest canvas to date 100cm square. It requires a large brush and lot of bravery to get the first paint down. I had an idea in mind and like to paint my underpainting loosely. This gives me a feel for it and I love what the paint does sometimes when very wet, running into other colours and creating great effects which I try to preserve leaving them to show through subsequent layers. Cobalt blue for summer skies was applied liberally. My first intention was to paint a distant seascape looking over a cornish hedge, but when dry I viewed it from different angles and a different painting completely was coming to me. I have ended up turning it upside down as lovely foamy waves started to appear. So it is going to be a large seascape with the tide running up the beach. I will leave it to your imagination at the moment as all will be revealed in due course.
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The brilliance of Cornish Gorse
March brings warmer skies and the mid sun icy blues on the sea. This is the perfect foil for the magnificent gorse we have at this time of the year. As brilliant as any yellow in a wild flower you will ever see. At this time of year there is little other colour in the coastal hedges after a winters pelting of rain and driving winds, so the prickly grey-greened stem gorse gives us uplifting yellows at a perfect time.
Gorse flower, Morwenstow
Inspired by this, I am able to paint with cadmium yellow. A deep strong warm yellow, exactly the colour of the gorse when combined with highlights of lemon yellow. Two paintings are underway, allowing me to experiment with different techniques and colours, as one is painted in oil on a deep crimson canvas and the other using acrylics on paper. Works in progress, I will post the finished work here in the near future.
My Latest Completed Painting
Millook Beach
My latest finished painting is of a small cove down the coast. Not a tourist hotspot because of its abundance of round bolders . It is a storm beach on the Atlantic coast of North Cornwall at the end of deep wooded valley. My style is loose, and I have tried to depict the depth of sky and sea with lots of layered colour. The sea changes colour every second and this colour was embedded in my memory, a beautiful turquoise reflected from the stony seabed.
