"Waders of the North Sea"

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Lovely colours and shapes Angela ,then I read your story and could make out the shapes and faces emerging.

So interesting Angela, I like your painting and your story.

What a fascinating painting. The story and faces emerging from it really captured my attention

Thankyou Sylvia,Carole, and Diana for your comments and feedback on this painting, much appreciated. I still need to paint the long boat with strewn sail and add ice for the surface of the sea.

I painted turquoise wash initially in drip style Abstract and after it dried out some images appeared. I didn't know at first why they had emerged then discovered later that from reading some chapter of a story I wrote a few months ago set in Finland it happened to dawn on me that it was the Long boat where some Vikings had landed in a Fjord off the coast of Finland. The boat had been sailing through ice and sleet and its main sail was torn and tattered, and so the crew needed to steer the craft into the embankment where it was docked! All the women and children stayed in the hull while the Viking sailors sped over rocks and ice-bars to explore the beach where Aspen trees grew in forests. This was their landing place for a while as the sea had become frozen in ice and only the hoot of the Artic Owl could be heard in this isolated fjord where icicles hung on the branches of the trees. I painted the features of the women and babes with Inktense watercolour pencil and fine brush. I n