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 "C" has asked me for a painting, and these are her wishes:
."..... a painting in size 40X45 cm (40 cm horizontal, 45 cm vertical) with following details:
*** winter (=with snow) landscape of houses on the seaside/harbour with high mountains and trees on the background
*** 2 boats in the sea and on one of this there should be a couple (boy+girl) and a seagull
*** seagulls on the dry land in the foreground
Colors should be:
Houses: red and orange
Sea: blue
Sky: light blue/sky blue
in other words, it should be a sort of mixture between following paintings we found on your web site and in which we fall in love with:
--- Egil Hunstad's Harbour
--- In A Little Fishing Harbour
--- Seagulls In Lofoten

Here are the 3 paintings she mentions:

Egil Hunstad's Harbour

In A Little Fishing Harbour

Seagulls In Lofoten

 

Day 1:
Bought a canvas board, they didn't have the right size so have marked up for where to cut.


The canvas' surface is too rough so I applied a coat of relief paste as a gesso.


Waiting for the paste to dry... and drawing a little sketch for the painting :-)
 

Ladyfingers

(...and eating lady fingers... made in Italy ("C" is from Italy, I want to get this right...))

Wish I had my new camera with me, this photoes are taken with the mobile phone, better photoes next time.

 

  The gesso has now dried to a smooth surface.

 
Think I'll start with the sky: white and blue paint, the mobile shows black and white.

I like the Phthalo Blue color, it comes from Winsor & Newton.
This is Phthalo blue red shade, I use it for the winter sky.
There is also a phthalo blue green shade, which I think is more like summer.


I use a plastic knife to apply the paint, have to do this fast before it dries.
 

   
Then a sponge to make the blue look more skyish, and my finger nails more bluish. Next time I'll buy a larger sponge.
This is a natural sponge, they are rather expencive. Plastic sponges are no good for painting.
 


A mix of white, phthalo blue and green turquise, for the sea.
 

 

 


Painting the sea with horizontal strokes.
Here and there I can see some turquise stripes in the paint, looks nice!
The phone camera recognizes blue only.


The painting after day 1.

Day 2 :


Drawing the mountains with school chalk (easy to remove later)


Painting the mountains with white and graphite grey


Adding white snow at the tops - and making skies with the sponge.


Underpainting the sea houses with white, making a hill as well.
And drawing some more with the chalk. Think I'll move the boat a bit to the left? Yes, I will.

   
Sea houses: Burnt Sienna (red) and Yellow ocre.
And a yellow house on the hill. For the landlord...

More to come!


Day 3

Making a new sketch and underpainting the boats with white. Adding 3 boat houses, a barn and a white house.


Starting with the windows and doors...

And spending the rest of the evening with the two warehouses.

Day 4
First showing a few things that inspire me:

"My" mountain... the roof at lower left corner is on my parents house... where I was born.


Traditional boat houses.. also from my home village.

  
Old house (left) and cow house (right), from my home place. The little red house is the toilet. 


Big  seagull makes big noise, lots of them around here.


And the old boats... you can see one of them here.

Back to my progress: working more on the houses.

 

     
And adding some trees.... (There are cows and hens inside the cowhouse, I promise.)



Underpainting the boats with white, and painting big rocks in foreground.
 


Painting all wooden things with Burnt Umber and Raw Umber.


And going home after underpainting the seagulls and the couple with white. Not quite satisfied because I think the people are too large.
Now the painting looks like nearly finished, but it is not.
 End of day 4.

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