The large painting that I’m reworking is taking shape better than I had hoped. It now feels like a cold inland sea, whipped into a frenzy by an Autumn gale.
My next task is to work on the area in the foreground where the waves are breaking. At first, I thought I should paint the foamy places where the water breaks onto the rocky shore.
Quickly, I realized that I can’t convincingly paint these crashing waves without first defining the shoreline.
A few days before, I happened to be visiting this same spot on Lake Superior -without the storm, unfortunately- and took reference photos. Using the reference photos, as well as the knife strokes on the existing painting, I “sculpted” a rocky shorline.
Now that I have a well defined shore, I can start crashing some waves onto it!
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