PTG Exercise 5 - Shoreline

WOW SO MANY DIFFERENT TREATMENTS AND THEY'GOOD

Paul selected Linda's work for critiques this month saying: 'A great feel to this Linda and I’m really impressed that you shifted the focus from the building and onto the pebbles. I think the colours, loose shapes and spatter work really well here. The painting is quite high key but the subject matter carries it off. You didn’t say whether you refrained from toning colours deliberately but I’d say it’s always a good idea to have some ‘grey shades’ here and there at least. You can use a little ivory black or a neutral tint with your colour for this. This brings me onto your building. Leaving it as a simple flat shape is fine however you have painted this in bright colour, which makes it comes forward in the painting. Being bright but devoid of detail and features it looks a little unfinished. Try to involve it more with your distance by using some sky colour in there, maybe losing the shape in places, so that it becomes distant and vague. Take a look at Barry Baxter’s painting (the one next to yours). He’s involved his sky colour with his buildings and they really sit back in the distance.'