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| Castle Cove, Dartmouth Watercolour and Acrylic Ink on Paper 24cm x 34cm (9.5" x 13.5) |
Castle Cove is a small beach reached by steps from Dartmouth Castle.
One of my focuses for this picture was to include a lot of drawn marks. The tree trunks are a mixture of watercolour pencil marks and acrylic ink lines. The cracks and the marks on the rocks are acrylic ink drawn with a variety of implements. Some of the highlights in the water are marks made with a wax crayon.
This is the first picture for which I've used coloured thumbnail sketches to experiment with different arrangements of colour (see Castle Cove - Thumbnail Sketches).
Castle Cove - Finished and Thumbnail
It is interesting to compare the final colour thumbnail with the actual picture. While I was painting, I thought I was being reasonably faithful to the thumbnail, but they are quite different, especially in the arrangement of tones.
Its been a while since I visited your art journey...so very cool your still growing and what amazing progress your have achieved! BRAVO! Soon you & Elaine will be connecting up with Lori & Pete..best to you all!
ReplyDeleteThank you Minaz. I’m looking forward to seeing Lori and Peter, shame it will be such a short visit - dinner on the Saturday and the Matisse Cut-Outs exhibition at Tate Modern on Sunday. All the best to you and Jim.
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