Sunny Cold Brant Rock

Sunny, Cold Brant Rock April - Stage One

It looked like April with a high midday sun, and a greenish turquoise ocean color.   It just didn't feel like April.   I set up overlooking the Brant Rock in Marshfield, Massachusetts.  The wind was whipping from the North, so I set up with the car to my left, which helped block the worst of it.  The strong April sun was on my back and gradually the cold was less noticeable.    The water was a beautiful combination of colors.   Ultramarine blue at the horizon lightening to a turquoise green at the mid range to a more cobalt blue (reflective of sky) in the foreground.



Sunny, Cold Brant Rock April

Part of designing a painting with continuous movement of things like waves means observing the patterns of the breakers and deciding on a pleasing (varied) placement of them.   There was a constant straight breaker coming out from the Brant Rock formation itself.  Behind the smooth reddish boulder in the middle, sea spray was shooting up.  In the forground uniform breakers approached the shore.   These were the three wave patterns I would include.   And of course, gulls galore.   They seemed to just float up, scarcely pumping their wings, and  I included plenty of them to be true to the scene
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