December 16, 2009

Stormy Sea



I was commissioned to do this painting for a friend of mine. We grew up in the same small town and she wanted a painting of the shore where we used to spend a lot of our childhood days. There is something incredibly nostalgic about looking at this. The lightning was her idea after the painting was already finished. I thought I might ruin the sky by adding it (and nearly did), but in all, I think it enhances the emotion of the picture. I love painting water. It has so much motion and variation of colour.


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