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    vhere
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        I came across and experiment I did months ago with texture paste, just a very beginning of a painting.

        So decided to work on it using inks and then a bit of coloured pencil. It’s a view I know well and have painted in all weathers, times of day and tides so it left me free just to experiment from memories. I moved the rocky reef offshore to the right to make a better composition ……. well, if Constable can move churches in a view I can move rocks :angel:

        The offcuts piece I showed was made from the sides I cropped from this.

        I wanted to keep it to a very muted palette.

        A rainy day with the waves coming over the harbour wall – what the Scots call dreich. A really descriptive word for that kind of day.

        Dreich: A combination of dull, overcast, drizzly, cold, misty and miserable weather. At least 4 of the above adjectives must apply before the weather is truly dreich. and they did apply on the day I was remembering

        Acrylic inks, a little coloured pencil on Khadi paper (which I don’t like) with underlying texture paste. I think I mixed sand with the texture paste.

        There are things I would like to change but with the texture paste it would mean getting the sandpaper out.

        or crop? cut out some of the overworking? I think maybe not when I see them together.

        what do you think?

        #690817

        Amazing collection of media plus interesting technique makes this one rock in the dreary weather. I do like the first uncropped version best.

        Kay

        Moderator: Watermedia, Mixed Media, Abstract/Contemporary

        #690818
        vhere
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            yes I think I do Kay

            I added more spray

            leaving it alone now

            #690820

            I really like the textures in this work. Very interesting.

            Penny
            I live in Wiltshire, England
            “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” -Will Rogers

            #690821
            ronsu18
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                the darker foreground completed everything, and brought even more water qualities to play. sign&frame!

                C&C welcome

                #690819
                vhere
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                    thanks :) it is framed and went into a show of a group I belong to – no sale but really I’m not ready to let it go yet :) it’s going up on my wall for a while

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