Coastal Inlet – semi abstract oils

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Semi Abstract oil painting, a coastal inlet in blues and greens.

oil semi abstract painting, blue and green oil paints, debiriley.com — Albany Inlet Blue and Green oils … cropped detail

Preparing the Surface

The painting was done on a board that I’d previously gessoed.

Then I hammered and scratched to distress the wood. This left many areas where the gesso had been beaten so roughly it had come off.

I then needed to redo the gesso. I did, and added some drizzled bits of gesso as well.

The result was just what I wanted, an ultra-textured surface to work on.

Painting

Once it was dry, it was ready to go. Choosing just a few colors that would give a strong dark with some mid tones and a lighter tone was all I really needed.

It is the Dark, the prussian blue that does the trick here. It provides such a great contrast to the mid tone water blue.

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12 thoughts on “Coastal Inlet – semi abstract oils”

Andrew Seal says:

14/06/2017 at 3:52 pm

Oh, those gorgeous blues 🙂 As you can see I am catching up – that’s what happens when you are a new grandpa 🙂

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1. debiriley says:
  
  15/06/2017 at 12:32 am
  
  How wonderful for you to be spending time with your darling new granddaughter. They are little for such a very short time 🙂
  
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  1. Andrew Seal says:
    
    15/06/2017 at 4:26 pm
    
    She’s a beauty 🙂
    
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  2. debiriley says:
    
    17/06/2017 at 12:24 am
    
    of course she is!!
    
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Ancient Skies says:

14/06/2017 at 6:05 pm

Really beautiful!

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1. debiriley says:
  
  15/06/2017 at 12:33 am
  
  thanks Nico, I enjoy oils – glad you liked this image and colors as well 🙂 peace and cheers, Debi
  
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Evelyn Flint says:

14/06/2017 at 9:19 pm

Beautiful abstract work and I like how you distressed the surface first before painting….

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1. debiriley says:
  
  15/06/2017 at 12:34 am
  
  LOL …. it is a great strategy, to get any frustrations out 🙂 so fun! thanks!
  
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David Kanigan says:

15/06/2017 at 5:29 am

❤️

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1. debiriley says:
  
  17/06/2017 at 12:24 am
  
  thank you David
  
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Leanne Cole says:

15/06/2017 at 9:03 pm

I love texture in paintings, I went to see the Van Gogh exhibition the other day and there were quite a few of his that had lots of textures. I just wanted to touch them.

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1. debiriley says:
  
  17/06/2017 at 12:22 am
  
  lucky you! and yes! it drives me mad… to NOT touch Leanne. most of my paintings, I will just tell people – Touch It! if its full of rich layered paint all sculptural and tantalizing…. its not going to destroy the image. unless they have like gum or something on their hands 🙂
  
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