St Margaret's Bay (again), oil on board.

 Another view of St. Margaret's Bay near Dover. This one was painted pretty quick, I didn't remember to photograph as I went along and so I only have the final painting to show here.


   No coloured under-painting on this one, size 10 x 12 inches.
To be listed on ebay under CrightonFineArts.

St Margaret's Bay, Kent.

Yesterday I started a quick oil of the bay at St Margaret's, near to Dover. The water was a gorgeous colour in August, but sketching on the beach was bad enough with the flies and wasps, so painting wasn't an option that day. 
When the tide was in, it seemed to concentrate the flying things on the small strip of beach left, and this is a very popular beach so wasps are in heaven here, what with the children and ice-cream mixture running about !

  The first session ended after 45 minutes, as the light faded too much to continue. 

 Today I have more or less finished. I like to stop when I am not sure where to go next, rather than over-working the paint and muddying with the wash underneath.

   I did not paint either the wasps, and I also omitted the railing and concrete ugly stuff which humans require to access the shoreline.  


   When this dries, I'll be adding it to sell on eBay. 
8x10 inches, oil on hand prepared gesso board.