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Low Tide, Ballyhack Harbour
An overcast day, which eventually turned into rain by mid-afternoon for our first post AITO paint-out at Ballyhack yesterday. Days like this can be very challenging (but we are all getting a lot of practice lately!), so I had to look hard to find some colour and even then give mother nature a little help/enhancement. I think it was the overlapping patterns of the boats that appealed to me initially. But they were sitting on fairly flat, boring mud, so I invented the puddles and reflections to give the painting a little more punch.
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Comment by Michael McGuire on August 21, 2012 at 8:56
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Thanks Norah. My purple phaze? I think that was about five years ago!
One thing I've learnt from plein air painting is that you must continually seek contrast; in tone/value, as in light against dark and vice versa; in chroma/intensity, as in bright against dull and in hue (particularly warm against cool and vice versa). There are also some other tools available to the oil painter (texture, edge and brushwork variation). But, the absolute necessity is to push all these differences to some extent. How far you choose to do so is largely a matter of personal choice, but too much and things start to look a bit garish, while too little leads to paintings that may appear a bit flat and dull.
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Comment by Norah Blount on August 21, 2012 at 8:05
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Like your subtle change in style michael - less purple hues ? dont know how you turn mud into this but it works
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I love my "muddy" colour these days, Keith! But my attic is full of old paintings with not so attractive muddy colour in them!
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Thanks George. Bring the fine weather with you whenever you join us next!
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Comment by George McHugh on August 20, 2012 at 17:13
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Great painting, Michael. Nice inventiveness, shapes and colours. (Sigh.) Sorry for missing the paintout - I'll get back sometime soon!
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Thanks Keith. Change in style? No, nothing deliberate, but my current stuff looks somewhat different to what I was doing a couple of years ago, and a lot different to what I was doing maybe five years back. Just evolving I suppose and, hopefully improving.
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