Coast Road Malahide_140126

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Comment by John McManus on January 27, 2014 at 20:18

Thanks Debra, Meg, Sally - enjoyed doing this one. The grey showery day helped me keep the tones in harmony. Hope you are finding some success Sally. But I find with watercolour there is no way past the clichés - if at first you don't succeed............, and practise makes perfect!

Comment by Sally Downey on January 27, 2014 at 11:27

Thank you John for all your generous advices.  I'm trying, I'm trying.  

Comment by meg leahy on January 26, 2014 at 23:26

Great stuff John...always loved that house too....swam at the "high rock" nearby often as a kid...

Comment by Debra Joyce Dawson on January 26, 2014 at 22:34

What a great painting! I love the shape of that building.

Comment by John McManus on January 26, 2014 at 22:16

Thanks Sean. Yes, that house has always attracted me and I never new it was a fort! Further up the road there is another house on the sea side of the road that looks like a converted Martello tower and then there is an old castle, which I have suggested at the end of the horizon line.

Comment by Sean Quinn on January 26, 2014 at 12:13

Lovely watercolour, John.   I'm  always intrigued with that almost fairytale building - remarkable that it was once a fort in  the shape of a Martello tower.