A Good to be Alive today

I finished this painting today and it was a gorgeous sparkling Spring day down at Trag. Just the day to sit and watch the sea.

I tried a new technique with this painting and learned lots. I used coarse texture gel for acrylic paint and painted it all over the canvas, using more where I wanted more texture. It worked out well but I will remember not to paint it on the horizon as it is then difficult to get a straight line. I painted the rocks by covering the whole thing in white first then used dabs of black, brown, umber and yellow . It looked very blocky so I then dragged a watery purple across the whole lot and the colours blended. The sea and sky were a bit flat so I asked Paul for advice and he suggested a watery wash and that worked really well. The sand was done the same way with a watery dark brown wash. The power of the wash!