This was painted using Atelier slow drying acrylics on a canvas 100 x 75 cm. I found the slow drying properties of this paint really helpful when working on such a large scale. I also created some texture on the foreground rocks by incorporating some sand from the beach, held in place with Atelier's binder medium. In an earlier blogpost I wrote about 2 acrylics that I did of the colourful cliffs there. The view is from Portobay Falesia hotel up on the cliffs. I used photos I took when staying at Olhos d'agua in the Algarve and bringing together some of my findings from earlier explorations in the form of sketches and watercolour studies that I did when there. The painting was varnished using a satin finish. #algarve #algarvepainting