Charlevoix beach scene... close to final pass...

The last pass was a bit more arduous due to the fact that the initial value scheme I had in mind for the composition did not really work: the upper body of the figure was disappearing in the vegetation at step II!

In the end though, this is quite representative of my experience that afternoon at Baie St-Paul (minus a few minor corrections on the figure to be implemented).

Every painting is associated with key learnings. Part of me thinks that I should nail these types of paintings in two steps flat... the idea behind this being to produce more expressive figurative works using intuition and feelings rather than brain and technical know how.

This is a noble objective for year 2009!