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Being large, and being acrylic means I can walk on it if I want to . . . |
They are slowing me up no end. This is because when they dry, and they dry very quickly, and when it's done, it can't be undone. This is such a different and unforgiving way to work with paint that it is taking some getting used to.
I am working on this large painting since last March. This is not my style. I am, as I have said before trying to paint more the feeling of the place as well as simply record the landscape.
This painting is of a place I know very well - Six Mile Point in Wicklow. The day I started this, a cold wind was blowing from the East and the tide was out and about to turn. It was only mid-afternoon, but already almost dark and the clouds and the sea were threatening.
The painting is about 5 feet wide and about half as high.
It's on a board that is so heavy for me to lug around that I doubted many times the wisdom of starting it. And yet, I keep coming back to it for more than 6 months now.
Yesterday, I managed to stand on it with one foot, while my other foot was trapped under this heavy lump of MDF board. As I felt the searing pain, I was also trying to figure out how I could be crushing my own toes?
But this morning, I think it might be finished. This is never quite a certain thing, but I am hopeful.
Here are some details from this enormous (for me) painting. When it is declared properly finished, you may see it here
