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C1601
"Receding Tide at the Devil’s Elbow"
(Oregon Coast)
Oil on Centurian Oil Primed Linen Panel
with additional Coat of Rublev Lead Ground
4" x 6"
Getting back to
my time at Heceta Head Light, I painted the above Oil Sketch from the south end
of the beach at the Devil’s Elbow State Park, and looking towards Heceta Head
Lighthouse which lurks behind the most seaward screen of trees. I’m always intrigued that one parks the car
and potters about on the beach at the Devil’s Elbow State Park, but the reason
one is really there is for the views of, and the walk up to the lighthouse
itself; it makes it confusing when deciding on how to entitle any sketch or
painting done hereabouts, for the natural choice is the name of the lighthouse
itself, somewhere in the title … as that is mostly why you’re here, or are
drawn to the paining … but without then making the title too long. I, of course, many times do not let a short
title stand in the way, when a longer title is available … thank, the great JMW
Turner for those proclivities of mine.
But I digress. T’was a breezy
day, but I managed with not too much difficulty to finish the work, save for
the gulls which I stuck in later. I have
not managed to get this far out at low tide here before, as usually the state
of the tide has not allowed it in the many times I have stopped here in the
past. Had I not been busy working on
this I could have got much further out before the tide began to flow back in;
that would have been for photos only, as I keep a healthy eye on the states of
the tides, when working next the sea … my 23 years in Cornwall, England taught
me thus.
Note:
This work will
be for sale via this blog for a few days only, as I will be framing it and
taking it off to one of my Galleries the week after next.
Imprimatura: Venetian Red.
Drawing:
French Ultramarine.
The Pigments used were: Rublev Blue Ridge Yellow Ochre, Italian Burnt
Sienna, with Winsor & Newton Cerulean, Cobalt & French Ultramarine Blues,
Venetian Red, and Cremnitz & Titanium Whites.
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