Artist’s Back to Basic – July 2019

from different view points, and

close-ups, are more interesting

to me than general scenes.

With many beach paintings I

like to paint a canvas black first

• and then paint bright colour
  over the black, using the depth
  of the dark ground to give weight
  to the elements of the picture.
  This way, highlights of colour

and light are quickly visible and

dynamic. A painting can have

an immediacy in its nature, or it

can be worked more slowly ...

applying the colour layer by layer.

I like both oils and acrylics and

I am happy to try using other

materials and techniques for

different subjects and effects.

Working in my studio is a daily

Above right: Beach I

Below left: Beach Colour Study

Below right: Hot Sunday II

Opposite page –

Top: Beach Group

Below: Beach Figure Study.

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