MY SAGA OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND LANDSCAPE - PART 1

This was the photo that inspired the painting. It was taken by Em's niece, I believe, and was a wintery view of Dunville,  Newfoundland [Em's birthplace, and home to her family for over two hundred years]. Em wanted me to do a painting for her brother for his birthday.

I also made use of this photo of an Atlantic sunset - for colour only - as  I found the colours in the original photo just not right.

And I was off ... first a wet in wet wash of phthalo  blue, quin. sienna and permanent  rose for the sky ...

 ... some masking out for snow on local hills, then did several glazes of  the pink with some indanthrone and quin. burnt orange...

...started the inlet with pink and sienna ...

... more colour with phthalo blue and indanthrone in the water, and  pink, quin. burnt  orange and indanthrone for the land masses ...

For some reason, at this point, I did not like what I'd done so far. The above image was of the painting as far as I got,  with an earlier colour study on top. I took this photo to send to Em for critique. She loved my colours in the study, but wanted less sky.  I did so, but didn't like the sky in my first attempt. It was a largish painting, and I wasn't keen to start again, but you know me ...

Thank you for dropping by! Stay tuned for Part 2.