James Flynn

Hello again, hope you are well......

I wanted to give you an update on a painting I started quite a while ago now.  A couple of months back during a brief spell of good weather I headed down to greenwich riverside equipped with my easel and a good selection of paints.

I made a start on two paintings that day, one of docklands/canary wharf, and another of the thames overlooking the cutty sark in greenwich.

Admittedly, the docklands painting I decided to abandon, but the greenwich painting was sitting around for two months and as we had a little sun again recently, I decided to carry on where I left off last time.

So off I went again, loaded up with easel, paints etc and had a good few hours of plein air painting.  I must say also, I didn't really do myself any favours picking this spot, as it isn't really that "interesting" to paint as you can see......

However, I persevered and although there was times when I felt like abandoning this one too, I eventually got to a stage where I was reasonably happy, and I am now fairly happy with this one.

This is the end result from that day, and as you can see, I did use my artistic license a bit just to "spruce" it up a little!  But hey, that's what painting is all about isn't it?.....

As you can probably tell, I have brightened up this scene quite a bit, for dramatic effect too, but I think I can call this one a success!...

Let me know what you think of this, as I always like to see your comments.

Don't forget to drop by soon as i'm going to do some more plein air painting over the next few weeks and I will be posting more paintings up here shortly.

Thanks for reading,

James Flynn