Thurstaston 1

An early landscape, I was pleased with this, once I'd curved round the lines (the banks of the river, skyline and foreshore) so that they meet together. Perspective is tricky. I tried to paint what I saw, stood near the cliff edge at Thurstaston RSPB Visitor Centre. What surprised me was giving the impression of standing on a clifftop, looking down over the bluff along the Dee estuary foreshore. I tried loops and curves and different colours. I used a putty knife to scour the page. Only when I sat the following week in my living room, with the painting on display on my window ledge, did I realise I'd done it. I was looking down and along to the point where the two strands of river meet.