Newhaven Fishing Boat

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This is great! A good re-visit, full of colour

Posted by Helen Melia on Wed 04 Jan 17:19:19

Great painting, Ken - the bright colours really do contrast well with the darker background...

Posted by Jan Rossington on Wed 04 Jan 17:39:52

Nice when you come back to something and finish it off, feeling rather satisfied. The boat lifts everything. If you don't mind me saying Ken, how about a few warmer tints here and there in the darkness, to link it all together?

Posted by Marjorie Firth on Wed 04 Jan 18:46:17

The boat and it's reflection work very well, the background is just that, it should be 'boring' to allow the 'ballet dancer' to shine.

Posted by Stephen Slater on Wed 04 Jan 19:21:01

Like the composition. The bright boat against the greys looks good :)

Posted by Louise Naimian on Thu 05 Jan 09:28:17

Great water and reflections Ken.

Posted by Jim Morris on Thu 05 Jan 11:03:44

I love the contrast between the lovely bright boat and the dark harbour wall and water. Great reflections too. I know Newhaven well - I'm going to the restaurant there tomorrow. Will look out for this boat!

Posted by Kay Devlin on Thu 05 Jan 11:10:25

Love the reflections ... and how the brightly colored boat stands out against the drab background.

Posted by David Hendrey on Thu 05 Jan 14:02:10

I like the way the boat stands out against the dark harbour wall.

Posted by Avril Soldani on Thu 05 Jan 17:00:54

Hang on Studio Wall

04/01/2017

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I know there's a Newhaven in Sussex, but this one is a small harbour in Edinburgh. I started this painting 4 weeks ago and quickly painted in the background and the water left and right of the fishing boat. When I'd done that, with the boat and the area for its reflections still left as white paper, I felt the piece was too dark, gloomy and oppressive, so I put it aside. I came back to it yesterday, decided I could do something with it after all and completed the boat and reflections. Fortunately the bright colours gave the painting a real lift overcoming (I think!) the drabness of the background.

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