I’d never tried a seascape before, and when I came across an old photo I’d taken of waves crashing on a rocky headland along the Great Ocean Road near Apollo Bay in Victoria, I thought I’d give it a shot.
I zoomed in on a small patch of rocks where there was a particularly nice break coming across them. It was actually a lot of fun painting the crashing wave – a wide hog-hair fan brush was employed and the titanium white paint was applied thickly in a number of dramatic upward strokes.
I’m really happy with the result – both with the naturalistic appearance of the rocks themselves and the dynamism within the picture.
June 2020
Oil on 20″ x 16″ stretched canvas.
