Painting Light and Colour

‘Storm over the land’

Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm

Status: For Sale €295

‘I don’t believe in making pencil sketches and then painting your landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.’ (William Merritt Chase)

I painted this picture of a canal boat as a storm was approaching from the near horizon. I don’t know whether the story about the English painter Turner lashing himself to the mast of a ship and painting in a storm, basically to get the ‘vibe’ is true or not, but it is definitely true that you always get a better result painting in situ. It also helps that the uncertainty of the weather tends to dictate that you paint pretty much fast and furious before you get saturated, blown up by lightning etc. Invariably, the painting is more lively!

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