So this painting has been waiting to be finished for a while as i wasn't sure where to go next with it, but comparing it to my study on the day, which is the second one i completed as the sun broke through late morning and i had to stop the first study, i think its almost there, maybe a slighly foamier sea in the foreground and a little bit on the hands and i could call this done!...lets do it! :)
Late afternoon at the beach from late July, i had managed to paint them from life while i was doing a study of the headland, and i painted them onto a 6x8 inch to work out the poses more and see what i could do with the colour as it was laye afternoon, so i saw potential for pushing colour saturation more, but still find some of natures greys as there was moisture in the air which had a cooling effect even though the sun was low and clear!...
..Having painted so many figure paintings at the school here in thousand oaks, this one deserved to be stretched and finished once and for all!!...14x18 inches on canvas board.
...so i gessoed a load of older canvases last week, and this was in the back of my mind, so while waiting for a few others to dry i thought i would do this as a fun warm up exercise!!...yes just like going to the gym, we sometimes need to step back and loosen up, have a sense of dare, break the mould, and sometimes out of this fearlessness come triumph!!...its been a good day! :)
