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OK - well, the second one is a weak painting, and I remember getting bored with it at the time, which is why I resorted to gouache. There are too many barriers in it, no real way in - and I'd have to re-invent the scene entirely. Besides which - I am just bored with the scene. So - I might try working on the first one: by zooming out - hmmmm. Should I bother....? There's SOMETHING there - the odd angle of the steps down to the water; the boat house intruding on the path; but the fact is that the details of an Isle of Wight beach scene just aren't that interesting to me - I've seen them all too often, and most of them are oddly similar: could I improve this composition by moving out of it, making the colours more 'natural' ..... I still don't know....
Possibly, if in doubt - try something else. Too many of the scenes available to me are very 'domestic', and thus, a touch tedious: seek more natural subjects, perhaps - not the conservative architecture of the average beach and protective sea defences......
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I must admit Robert I have seen a fair amount of your paintings and enjoyed them.. this one would not rank amongst my favourites.
Maybe crop it to the beach huts ? Or just abandon it...life is sometimes too short. You can get over absorbed by too familiar scenes yours being coastal mine rural .
Yesterday I did go to a localish beach about nine miles away and it was a delight to have big horizons , though as I was busy playing throw the ball for Sam ,painting / drawing was not an option. Sometimes I close in on a very tiny bit like water, stones, plants... oh go and draw a few more rattys .
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