Never having been quite happy with the colour of the sail (which in reality is a rusty red) I have toned it down from the rather Barbie-esque tones it started out in, and also reduced the grey in the harbour wall blocks. Light fading with snowy showers today so won't be able to start anything new.
Another boat in the harbour which I haven't painted before. The one in the background has fought me all the way and I'm still not entirely happy with it, nor with the pink that the sail has turned out, although I feel I could happily blame that on the Stygian gloom we have experienced weather-wise the last few days. A bit of adjustment needed! I do like painting floats though :)
Just got this finished before it got too dark to work. Have to make the most of the daylight at this time of year!
This is a teeny weeny painting which I'm going to donate to the Friends of Aberdeen Art Gallery 'Wee Gems' show which will run 11th-15th November in the Studio Workshop in Aberdeen Art Gallery. All exhibits are to be presented in a hard cover CD case and will be offered for sale at the end of the exhibition for £15. It was an interesting exercise working on one of this series at a much smaller scale.
Aberdeen Art Gallery is one of my most favourites spaces, and galleries, EVER. It is due to be extended with a £30 million project, starting next year. I am a little worried by this, as the gallery has been such an important space to me for just about all my life, or at least as long as I can remember! I really like the roughly cut hefty stone blocks of the harbour wall. Law stone, from the old quarry in the side of our prominent local landmark, is a reddish coloured phonolytic (it rings when you hit it!) trachite (an igneous volcanic rock) that was used for many of the old buildings around the town. I don't know if this is what was used for the harbour construction or whether it was cut much closer in the vicinity of the harbour - better speak to a geologist!
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