Low Tide 42" x 32" Oil

I have added a few more glazes to this today. I really wanted to sharpen up the boats, but when I eventually found a photograph, it was really small which explains the undefined painting.

 

I also prepared another larger canvas........and sat for an hour wondering what to paint! 20" x 16" is my comfort zone, anything larger and I don't want to waste it.....and so I can't begin! 

Boats 16" x 20" Oil

Another version of this image, which I love. I was trying to capture the light and the sparkle.

WA - Summer Holiday

This is where I was at the end of play on Wednesday afternoon.

I carried on today and reached this point where the quetion is ' the sea or not the sea?'

What do you think?

Panic!

Cromer  16" x 16" Oil

Posed  16" x 20"  Oil

I've been fiddling with these paintings this week. I have given all the paintings that were earmarked to go in the Hertford Art Society Annual Exhibition to the Out of the Box Independent Curators to show at the Rampant Horse in Gayton. Consequently I am in a panic as the deadline approaches! And neither of these will do, I fear.

Blakeney 20" x 16" Oil

Finished! 

Waiting 12" x 10" Oil

It didn't need much tiddling, after all!

Time to Reflect 20" x 28" Oil

I have been working on this all afternoon, and thought it just about done, but can you see a difference from yesterday? !!

Update. Lovely title suggested by Peter Kavanagh, who also pointed out that the skirt was not quite right, so I have made amends and tiddled up a few other passages that were bugging me.

WA - WIP

The program had been rearranged for today, which I had forgotten about, so while everyone else was having fun painting roses, etc, in the style of the travellers decoration of utensils, I took along this WIP to carry on with. Everyone produced stunning work, which I would have loved to show you, but, oh-oh, something else I forgot.....my camera!

Untitled (yet) 20" x 28"  Oil

WA - Mixed Media

I forgot to take my reference photo! I used acrylics, ink, and oil pastels.  I learned that I cannot make it up, and although I had a good idea what I wanted to do, I got very confused and couldn't understand why it didn't work! All became clear when I returned home........I had printed two pics and had been trying to incorporate them both in the same painting!!

I have made amends....well....so far so good.

Works in Progress

Shimmer  36" x 24"  Oil

Chit-chat  20" x 16"  Oil

Two works in progress....the first, a bigger version of a favourite which sold. The second, from a friends' photo, which just made me giggle.

Reflections Too 10" x 12" Oil

This is another version of a painting I did back in Aug 2008, done at the request of a friend. This is the third time that someone has wanted a painting that has already been sold! I am always happy to do another version, which has been agreeable in each of the three cases.

Does this happen to you? Do you offer to paint a similar painting?

More Boats 12" x 20" Pastel

As I had retrieved my pastels from the bottom of a box last week, I had to have a go. It's  probably a work in progress, as I can see where just a flick of a pastel would make a big improvement and I could make a lot more of the sea. I enjoyed it, though, so I might well go back to it! Maybe.

Shimmer 15" x 14" Oil

A quick wield of the palette knife.....love it!

Low Tide 16" x 16" Oil

Wells-Next-The-Sea again.

At The Beach *2 11" x 12" Oil

At The Beach 9" x 14" Oil