Rum from Eoligarry
16" x 20" oil on canvas, painted from a plein air watercolour. I've posted this painting before. I know: you have to know when to stop fiddling but I think it was justified this time. The painting was on my wall but I wasn't entirely happy with it. Guy Bailey's Iona, after Cadell inspired me to work on my most Cadell-influenced painting. At the weekend, I realised how I might improve the lump of rocks on the right middle-distance. It was too dominant. It was a risk, as the painting was already framed. I scumbled a bluish grey over part of the rocks to knock them back. Then made the line where they meet the sand a more interesting shape. I added a few highlights on the pointed rock and on the gannet. I thought I'd risk a few waves to add movement. Last night I thought I'd finished but this morning I decided to risk changing the sky. I wanted the band of cloud to sit lower and the whole sky to be a little darker to set off the light sand. Couldn't resist
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