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This is the finished version of the painting I was working on over the weekend (between visitors).

Based on a photograph taken on Porthtowan beach this August. A sort of companion piece to Curve.


Oil on natural linen canvas
38 x 61 cm

Last orders on Porthtowan

This is a detail from the Really Big Canvas, AKA Porthtowan. A new detail.

Curve - SOLD

The starting point for this was a photograph taken from the beach at Porthtowan when I was there to look at the view from East Cliff.

Porthtowan

This painting - a commission - was a fabulous challenge: a two-metre-long palette-knife-oil painting of the view from a cottage on East Cliff, Porthtowan, Cornwall. Slightly complicated by the necessity of "removing" the newer buildings further down the slope that obscured the view of the beach.

Porthtowan (WIP) before the surfers hit the beach...

I have a few things left to do to this, including adding a few tiny figures on the beach.

Oil on really big canvas, 80 x 200 cm
WIP, commission

Porthtowan (WIP) on Tuesday: the village starts to appear

I'm continuing work on the really big canvas of Porthtowan (80 x 200 cm). The static image, above, shows its current state, while the animation below shows a series of stages.

Today, I livened up the sea a bit and started adding the buildings of the village.

Previous post: Friday

Subsequent posts: Wednesday, Thursday

Porthtowan, Work in Progress: Beginnings, edges, and how it looks this Friday evening

There's still a fair bit to do, but this is the current state of my really big painting of Porthtowan. I'm working my way down towards the village, which will be a challenge. Godrevy lighthouse is there - just - and I haven't forgotten that there is a chimney on the skyline.

Porthtowan is a large subject, and I'm remarkably fortunate that my client wanted it on a large canvas. His deposit paid for the 80 x 200 cm stretched canvas to be made. I got it delivered direct to my studio as it's too big to fit in my car (and definitely too big to carry on my bicycle!).

Porthtowan: Work in Progress and Sketches

 

This is the (rather bright) acrylic underpainting for a large commission that I started work on today.

It is based on photographs and sketches of the Cornish village of Porthtowan, looking down from East Cliff.

Watercolour done from footpath

Line and wash done from photomontage

Pen sketch done on-site