Assignment 3 - Landscape painting from mixed sources

Local elements as both colour and texture references. Greys of the pebbles and the earthy reds of the shells or considered when painting the buildings and the sage green of the dried slate used as Awash in the fields in the background. Hint of indigo blue in some of the shells thought about adding this to the sky but thought against it as it may make the sky to dark and be at odds with the shadow and sense of sunlight hitting the sand:

Painting 1, study of the scene removing some of the background detail of the building that are visible in the photographs that I am using as a reference for this assignment.

In the final painting I have introduced  the church that I painted in one of the earlier exercise in this section of the course. Undecided as to he whether  this works happy that scale of the church is in keeping with it's surroundings.

Perhaps the child in the foreground could do with being a little bit bigger.

Painting from Photograph study 2

A visit to Port Isaac lots of photographs taken, first painting done (few more to follow) is a view of the houses used the TV series Doc Martin.

Used a waterproof liner to go over the detail of the houses once sketched in and use the liner to put in some of the features of the background trees.  Happy the liner marks conveyed what the picture was about, I could quite freely apply the the watercolour washes.

P3 - Exercise Photographs for source material

A weeks holiday in Newquay, weather forecast didn't look good but hope the trip would give me the much need inspiration to complete section three of the the course. Family living in the area had been able to sort us out a property over looking Porth beach, fantastic views from the lounge giving me multiple options in terms of subject matter for assignment three.

The following studies done day of arrival before youngest child had recovered the journey and wanted to good in search of amusement arcades and shops selling skateboards;

View of road leading out of Porth towards Watersgate Bay:

View of some of the buildings that merge with the wall on the edge of Porth beach:

 
Soon decided that the second view above would be the one I would use for assignment three... fewer buildings to work on, liked the angle of the the beach wall offering a strong diagonal for the picture's composition without any need for artistic licence. View also offered some distant fields which I felt contrasted well the greys of the buildings.

Photographs taken of the view for future reference: