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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Relax and Refocus
After all the organisation of the Royal Wedding street Party, I am able to relax, get back to a bit of house tidying and gardening and Painting! I finished a large painting which I am sure is my best to date! I am not going to post pictures of latest work as I am keeping it for its first show at my Exhibition in June. More details will follow, but I have 10 pieces of work to submit which I am very pleased with. 5 are awaiting framing and need to dry before that can be done, but I have at least booked a slot with the framers. So I now only have 2 canvases in my studio. One is large and the other is gigantic. Am I brave enough to start it. Part of me can’t wait. But for me this is always part of the problem….. I don’t want to rush into it. Do I plan and it becomes tight or do I just instinctively paint. I like to do the latter, but sometimes think a little forethought doesn’t go amiss. Will let you know how its going in the next post.
As a postnote, if anyone wants to see our fantastic street party on facebook, I think the photos can be viewed at www.facebook.com/victoriaroad
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.
