The companion painting to the previous "Sea Of Shadows" is another one that is focused on me getting better at painting water in particular ocean water. I wanted to flood this one with light to reflect the title and give it an optimistic feel as opposed to my usual beautiful melancholia. The light burst was thrown into the mix as I was doing the tonal underpainting and is a theme that I will continue to develop as I would like to use it in my gallery work series "Point Of Light"... not quite sure how yet and it might necessitate a change of title for the series... It was interesting working out how to paint the clouds as they needed to be dramatic but not dark and threatening and possibly broke some new ground with this.... it seems I learn something in every painting.
Oil on linen 22" x 16".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.
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