Santander in the Morning

[Grapes]

These three oil studies could go either to pleinair or here to landscapes. Some count paintings painted in the balcony pleinairs as do I often but my balcony in Santander was more closed type of balcony so I choose the landscape category.

I was watching my view several mornings and the view to the sea was different each morning. I decided to paint what I saw. I was able to divide the support to three equal parts in a landscape form so it would be three mornings and three paintings.
I started painting each morning without any plans for technique, style, colors etc. only paint what I see.

"Santander in the Morning", each measure about 14x30 cm, oil on oilpaper.
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[Donna T]

Wow these are not only beautiful but each one feels authentic, as if you must have captured the colors very accurately! I’m noticing how you do the brush strokes in the skies so the colors lay next to each other.

 

[JennieJo]

Wonderful.

 

[Joy]

Lovely fresh studies. The middle one is my favourite.

 

[Grapes]

Donna, thanks!
I remember I tried to get the local color (and value .. always value) as correct as l could. It took me years to figure out how my favorite painters paint their skies and finally dared to make my own experiments and ended up doing my skies like that. But, bc l'm not sure if it's the proper way l won't write about it here but if you'd like to hear it in private l can tell you more.

 

[Grapes]

JennieJo, thank you so much!

 

[Grapes]

Joy, thanks!
I'm glad to hear your favorite and I thought that's the worst sketch of this mini series. I guess I don't have a favorite but they are a good memory of that place and those mornings but I like when these three are together as a group.
I painted them a little bit different hour each day. The tide was up in other moments and I got different water masses to paint. We went to swim there too, you could cross the water in between the sand dunes almost walking in the water but had to swim a little bit as it got deep in the middle. Not a bad place to spend vacations.