SUN 15 JUNE
Back in the studio, I brought in new lighter punchier yellows, now golden and glowing, with the middle section between the piers more distinct. Also simplified the top - less decorative now - with the harbour-line now jammed against the canvas edge, framing an expanse of beautiful emptiness... Enjoying the incidents of purple and the multi-relationships beween piers, both horizontally (reality) and dynamically, with the reds and the heavy line.
Calm. There is a gentle breeze, blue curtain or sea? Or both? The idea behind the painting captured. We're done.
I don't do boats! Love the presence of the pink (boat) - now with a slightly curved mast, whch seems to do something unexpected and interesting.
FRI 13 JUNE,
The last 'Porthleven' painting to be reworked (below, left). To paraphrase Tom Waits in 'Frank's Wild Years' - 'Never could stand that pink'. Or the dull shape of the harbour. With taking out the pink and expanding the yellow, the piers became stronger but the harbour-shape remained dull and static (middle). A much more elegant shape now (right), with the harbour stretched and a procession upwards of boats and piers that echoes the verticality of the tall canvas.
