Splosh!

I think this one is successful - the sea isn't easy to paint at all: I suppose because it keeps moving,and in painting it you need to give some sense of that - the question is, how? The usual big mistake, which I have most certainly made, is to employ too much pure white - you've not fallen for that, but have muted the colour of the foam: that's why the sea is convincing in this one. I like that patch of blue on the left, where the water is momentarily almost still in the hollow created by the waves surrounding it.

I can feel the wind in the sails, the lean of the boat and the sailors trying to keep control. Such energy and a super vibrancy about this painting - love it.

No, it it isn't easy and I must admit I made most of the sea up. This is my first attempt at painting anything other than a calm sea. I did not want to do what everyone else around here paints and that is the crashing wave coming into shore.

Thanks Thea.

You have acheived it well Linda. Robert and Thea have said it all, we have all been there. Practice and good advice worked well for me, so you're on a flyer already.

Thanks Derek for your kind comments.

You smashed this Linda captured the light and sea magnificently

Thank you Roib. It comes out differently when you paint from the heart.