July 12th, 2013
Unfinished
Rocky Neck, Gloucester MA
Oil on Canvas, 24 x 30 in

The workshop was on buildings and boats – I had done two boats already, so I opted to try a building. I had only two canvases left – a very small one, or a large one. I thought I’d opt for the large, since it’s difficult to get much detail on a small space with the knife. Downside of course is that there’s much more space to cover on a large canvas. This is as far as I got. However, I left the parts I hadn’t time for completely blank. This means that I can return to the site one day and finish it. With palette knife you can’t paint over dried paint – or I think one shouldn’t (for various reasons.) The only part where I would have to do so would be putting in the dozens of windows that thread along the pier building.