Leisure Painter

Harbour life

Learning objectives

■ Work with a limited palette
■ Paint a loose background of buildings first
■ Add simple detail at the end

Last summer I took a trip down to the harbour at West Bay in Dorset. Whilst there I took in this lovely yet simple scene (below). I particularly chose to paint this scene, as it is a simple image, in as much as the bulk of it is a grey-scale backdrop of buildings, leading down to a small area of details of boats and

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