Oil - Towards Rocken End, Isle of Wight

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I like the way you have accentuated the cliff face and wheat fields by using complementary colours and shadow thereby increasing the tension at the cliff edge. Well done.

Posted by Ronald Haber on Mon 15 Feb 21:22:33

Superb! Your painting hit me right in the "gut"!!! The colours and composition are brilliant.

Posted by Avril Soldani on Tue 16 Feb 08:29:50

Very impressive. Was up at the coast yesterday looking for similar reference shots through the sleet. My stuff is in the doldrums atm, yours is just getting better and better.

Posted by Ade Brownlow on Tue 16 Feb 09:37:36

Quite near to where I live, I can walk there in about an hour; it's not looking much like this at the moment, though! More an unlovely mud colour..... I think I shall steal your image and pretend it was all my idea...

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Tue 16 Feb 10:07:53

Ah Robert, my posting Invitation to view crossed your posting above, I did get the impression you lived nearby. Like I said .. alright for some!!! Were I to win the lottery we'd have a small place in Niton and pretend it was the '50s.

Posted by Andrew Giffen on Tue 16 Feb 11:19:30

really beautiful painting. I love this. Thanks for the information on colour.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Tue 16 Feb 11:23:15

Brings back happy memories of a short break I once took when I was a student at Portsmouth. Very akin to the memories!

Posted by Colleen Barton on Tue 16 Feb 19:24:19

A really lovely painting, I just love it.

Posted by Karleen Pearce on Wed 17 Feb 13:01:01

Marvellous painting, great sense of depth with a view that pulls you right in. Love your use of colour. So glad I scrolled through the gallery pages to see what I had missed!

Posted by Lesley Dabson on Sat 20 Feb 17:34:06

What beautiful work, skilfully carried out. Wonderful use of colour not just in this work but the whole portfolio, Wonderful. Are you Andrew Giffen who has commented on my pastels ? Bill Truslove

Posted by Bill Truslove on Sun 21 Feb 04:50:54

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31/03/2015

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This was a tonic to the winter gloom, taken from memories and photos from a summer holiday last year, with a bit of artistic licence thrown in. We did in fact sit and watch the yacht rounding Rocken End and it is a very popular walking spot. Robert will know it well.... Colour-wise, the sunlit wheat fields are mostly raw sienna + burnt sienna + white + cadmium yellow, warmer greens are terre verte/sap green with skin tint, cooler greens are viridian/ ultramarine+ yellow green, blues are ultramarine + cobalt in the shadow and coreuleum in the sun.

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