Black Rock Sands - Stage two

Black Rock Sands - Stage two
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Don't change anything - love the colours and the drama of the purple hills. Sometimes going for accuracy kills a painting. I think make the viewer look at the hills way back in the painting is the right goal for this work and the colour just emphasises this.

Looks like it's coming along nicely John, and many thanks for your kind comments on my flower painting.

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31/03/2015
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A little more detail added, although I need to 'knock-back' the distant hills. They seem too 'purple' and don't recede enough. Getting there. I think!

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John Walker

I have painted most of my life. Childhood Christmases usually found a box of watercolours in my 'stocking'. I left school in 1954 and within 6 months I had enlisted in the Royal Navy, starting at the infamous HMS Ganges, near Shotley, Suffolk. Artists country yes, but no time for such things while…

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