Oil on Board, 10 x 12 inches
This one was a bit of a labour on this scale with all the cars on the quayside, rigging and other paraphernalia of the fishing vessels. The real inspiration for the painting was the beautiful reflections in the milky green water and that was by a long way the most enjoyable part, letting loose with my No6 Mongoose Flat brush, ooh, lovely! There's not that much detail really in the rest - I used a credit card to get the straight lines of the rigging! Oh dear, more trade secrets...I'll have to kill you all again.
The inclusion of the Metropole Hotel, towering over the skyline and silhouetted against the sunlight, afforded a nice L-shaped composition and a much more interesting design to the painting.
The red buoys hanging from the middle boat, a few red cars, the yellow ice-cream van and the rusty hulk of the large vessel provided lovely warm accents to the largely monochromatic, grey colour scheme.
This is the second one I shall enter for the RSMA Exhibition, so must press on with a couple more...
Glorious painting, if a bit too busy for my taste. How long did it take to paint, with all that detail..........minus the 20 years experience, obviously?
ReplyDeleteThank you Sharon - 'tis a bit busy innit? It took too long really - over three days, dipping in and out between golf, jobs, television interviews, signing autographs....you know how it is. 30 years experience - I just look very young, ahem!
DeleteI shall look forward to seeing it there Peter, lovely! It has the look of a much larger painting, I was surprised to read the size!
ReplyDeleteIF, and it's a big IF, it gets in! 'tis a bit small with all that content, and it's about as loose as I get, as you know!
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