Marion Boddy-Evans

On My Easel: Islands or No Islands?

In Acrylics, Painting, The Minch on 19 February 2012 at 17:26

I’m waiting for the paint to dry before straightening the horizon on this work-in-progress, and knocking back the edge of the strong brushmark in the sky that leads your eye off the top. I’m debating whether or not to add islands, whether it should be a pure seascape (or landscape with land).

I’ve another, similar sized canvas dominated by summer sunset colours (similar to Minch 28) also without islands at the moment. When I’ve done the horizon on this, I’ll put them together and then decide about whether there’ll be islands, or not.

Seascape painting by Scottish artist Marion Boddy-Evans

Work in Progress. 40x30 inches. Colours: Prussian blue, cerulean blue, cerulean blue dark, cobalt blue, titanium white, iridescent white.

  1. Thats what the horizon looks like from a small boat when puffin viewing with a heavy sea running – only more so!

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