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Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on August 3, 2013 at 17:35

Thank you Jeri. This was an incredibly loose painting for me, as you can see by looking at my other paintings on this site. The red splotches represent the flowers on the Pahutokawa trees (New Zealand Christmas trees). They bloom in December (Summer in NZ). You will see them in some of Richard's paintings. They really spice up the gray- greens. Stu

Comment by Jeri McDonald on August 3, 2013 at 12:23

Love the use of red in this painting. So powerful and yet so subtle!

Comment by Jess Paskel on February 24, 2013 at 13:10

interesting stu, I never thought to do that to get that effect.  Going to keep that one in mind going forward. thanks

Comment by Barbara Haviland on February 24, 2013 at 11:07

Nice Stuart.

Comment by Ningning Li on February 16, 2013 at 15:39

Stuart, I like that stumbled orange too. So cute. Just kidding. I made so many mistakes in English. Nobody bother me. Next time please correct me .

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on February 16, 2013 at 15:14

That should be "scumbled"; the autocorrect on my IPad did the "stumbling". Stu

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on February 16, 2013 at 15:12

Thanks Jess; I stumbled some transparent orange lightened with zinc white over the already dry sky to get that effect. Stu

Comment by Jess Paskel on February 16, 2013 at 13:36

Very nice.  Really liking how the sunlit area in the background glows.

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on February 15, 2013 at 18:11

Thanks Li.  Stu

Comment by Ningning Li on February 15, 2013 at 5:49

Stuart, I enjoy this one. The composition, the value and color harmony are all very good.  As you are tonist painter(Am I right?), I am not expect you use a lot of pure highly saturated colour. Like Pauline, I like your foreground design, very interesting and fine. Your little figures make me giggling.Although  this is a cool tone painting, you successfully showed us a  warm peaceful beach scene by that pale orange, ochre white spot of land  at the midground contrast the whole cool colours around it.  I found that your shadows are at the leftside of the objects. Therefore, if I were you, I would keep the tree at the left side of the background as it is, as the sun shining on its right side. As the midground and foreground grasses are all in the shadow, no sun light, so they are ok like they are now. Just a thought.

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