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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Watercolour of Hastings Fishing boat set around the sixties when there was a substantial number of boats not only at Hastings but nationwide. Recent surveys suggest that fried fish is no longer one of the nation’s favourites and has been replaced by fried chicken, having seen a chicken trawler so can’t paint one . I usually start with the thread with a basic sketch but as I wasn’t intending to post it as a wip I just added the base colours this morning, this is the first stage.  I did decide to complete the sky at the beginning, the second stage was to add the base colours for the stones on beach plus a bit more work on the boats . Stage two.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Done a bit more , thats it for the day, spent more time painting today as it’s awfully dull and wet outside, nice and warm inside with something to keep me busy. Stating to add some features to the boats and surrounding areas.
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Had a busy day resulting in little time for painting, managed forty five minutes this afternoon and added a little more details, the colours in the foreground are dots of colour I’m looking at for the pebble beach .

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Coming along well Paul.  Be interesting to see how you get on with the pebbles, better than me I suspect.  Tried it once and didn’t know when to stop.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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That’s the biggest challenge ahead of me Lew , it will look awful if the pebbles are to dominate, hence my trial with different colours.  I will have a few in the foreground relatively detailed and fade away to jus small patches of colour suggesting that’s it pebbles.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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I should mask the rest of your painting, and employ a bit of spatter in the foreground; you can always tickle it up, ad lib; just vary the colour a bit. Hope I haven't encouraged you to ruin your painting - experimenting on a piece of spare paper is the answer.   PS - I know you know that!

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……Taking a tip from Rowland Hilder, most of his paintings have a darker band of colour at the base of his paintings - something that I’ve adopted myself for some time now. You need a large fully loaded brush to get a clean look. It’s an illusion that acts as a barrier to stop the painting dropping off the page… not literally of course, but it works. Robert’s suggestion of a bit of splatter is good, that on top of the darker band to indicate pebbles and stuff… Here’s one that I did earlier, it demonstrates what I’m talking about! Coming on very nicely Paul,… Beached Hastings Trawlers, watercolour on Fabriano Not 11 x 15in. …and one from the master himself - an original in my own collection.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thanks Robert and Alan , I had thought of splatter but didn’t want to do to much , Alan’s suggestion looks interesting and I would not need to do a lot of the splatter , foot for thought will play around with a spare piece of paper to see hoe it works and practice . I have a few RH books so will do a bit of studying beforehand.

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What an interesting tip Alan, which works really well in your two paintings above: something that seems quite simple but makes a big difference. Look forward to seeing what you do next to yours Dixie. I like the composition with the slant of the beach balanced by your upright masts.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I was awake in the night, nothing unusual in that but I decided to have my warm drink while looking at the painting, suddenly picked up the brush and added a little bit of dark to the beach area, not as dark as Alan’s as that scares me a bit. The trial area I did in the foreground looks ok so I might experiment with using both ideas , so the the dark areas look like depressions in the beach and the pebble loos like ridges . If it doesn’t work I can always wash it off . Thank for your comment Tessa , the masts look upright but are often slanted back slightly to allow for then to be level when on the water. The rear is heavier as that’s where the engine, fuel tank etc are located, the bow is pushed into the pebbles when it run ashore leaving it level looking sometimes , the often head fir the same landing spot so you get ridges along the shoreline. 
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I’m shortly going out for most of the day , had a  twenty minutes session before heading off , harkened the foreground a bit more , added the right with a pencil and started to put pebbles effect down . I added some  of  the paraphernalia that is around the boats on Hastings beach that often get left out , it’s there an an interesting part of the scene too.
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Had another half hour this afternoon, think it’s about done , I don’t want to overwork the pebbly beach and take away the  look of the boats that are the main theme. I will add a couple off white  off white boxes near the central area to lighten it a little, one I’ve done that tomorrow I will put it on the gallery.

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