My Seascape Painting "Heading Out"

My painting in Oils , digital copy and playing with overlaying texture.

I took another of my Seascape paintings to play with texturing. I find it fun to grab a heavy brush or palette knife digitally and play over the texture of my painting. It's a freedom in the Real world one is not afforded.

A section of the painting could easily be a Stand alone piece

As is often the case, when I'm painting, drawing etc, I try and break the composition into separate parts. I had an oil painting prof at Uni who was forver carrying about cut out bits of cardboard to put over our pieces. I think that lesson was always so important to me.

I love this section by itself as well.

If a section of your compostion could stand alone, the the sum of it's parts make a stronger whole, Or something along those lines. I digress...My oil teacher was Italian and I loved his accent."

I even like the little house on it's own.

Of course in my sea and landscapes I vary greatly from more fine lined details and curvilinear lines I love in my Animal pieces and my watercolor/illustrations. Here I embrace the abstraction of shapes. I don't mine when a roof lit with the setting sun is merely large brushed streaks of red.

The curve and line of a waterway and stone wall can happily be reduced to an almost Cubist treatment to amuse me. When I paint land and seascapes, the movement of the brush and the wet paint onto drying paint smears are very zen.

What I had fun with digitally was taking a heavy brush with nothing on it, so it was more of a blender, and taking up the colors underneath from the 'real painting' and pulling and moving the texture about. In a way the digital version then looks closer to the brushwork of the original, that digital capture was unable to get.

Overall, I'm sticking with this year's Art resolution of doing what I feel and enjoy in the day. Each studio day (which is usually 6 days a week) is approached with this mantra : "What do I FEEL like I want to paint/draw/playin today." I'm finding myself much more productive because of it.

I hope you enjoyed my seascape and that you get a moment in your day to indulge in your own passions; and remember to stay creative!