From the Artist: I have mainly used pthalo blue, burnt sienna, and titanium/zinc white. Very little lemon yellow was used. I was just back from a rainy beach-side holiday and the limited palette was an interesting challenge to get me painting. I have completely enjoyed my first time use of pthalo blue. I want to now try the same colors for a landscape with fair amount of green in it.
From the Painting Guide: Isn't it strange how holiday brochures never have photos of it raining... But I've found so-called 'bad' weather can produce even more fabulous seascapes for painting than endless blue skies and flat sea. You've used the four colors beautifully, showing how well they work for sea, sky, and shore.
Things to Consider When Looking at This Painting:
Composition: Look at how the arrangement and colors of the clouds pull your eye into the distance, and creates a sense of distance to the scene. Having the same colors in the waves creates a link between the waves and clouds that, to my eye, emphasizes a sense of a storm pending or just passing.
Notice how, although the horizon line is half-way up the painting and thus risked cutting the composition in half, the positioning of the sunshades breaks up the horizon line and prevents this from happening.
Shadows: I like the positioning of the shadows over the foreground, creating a sense of cold shade that fits with the threatened rain in the clouds. However, to my eye, the second sunshade from the left needs more of a shadow.
If this were intended to be a truly representational or realistic painting, then I'm not sure what's casting the shadow in the bottom right and left-hand corners. But that said, I like the feeling the shadow creates so it doesn't bother me. Finally, the tone of the underside of the one sunshade that we can see ought to be darker than the top of it, as it'll be in shadow.
From the Painting Guide: Isn't it strange how holiday brochures never have photos of it raining... But I've found so-called 'bad' weather can produce even more fabulous seascapes for painting than endless blue skies and flat sea. You've used the four colors beautifully, showing how well they work for sea, sky, and shore.
Things to Consider When Looking at This Painting:
Composition: Look at how the arrangement and colors of the clouds pull your eye into the distance, and creates a sense of distance to the scene. Having the same colors in the waves creates a link between the waves and clouds that, to my eye, emphasizes a sense of a storm pending or just passing.
Notice how, although the horizon line is half-way up the painting and thus risked cutting the composition in half, the positioning of the sunshades breaks up the horizon line and prevents this from happening.
Shadows: I like the positioning of the shadows over the foreground, creating a sense of cold shade that fits with the threatened rain in the clouds. However, to my eye, the second sunshade from the left needs more of a shadow.
If this were intended to be a truly representational or realistic painting, then I'm not sure what's casting the shadow in the bottom right and left-hand corners. But that said, I like the feeling the shadow creates so it doesn't bother me. Finally, the tone of the underside of the one sunshade that we can see ought to be darker than the top of it, as it'll be in shadow.