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July

Back in July 22 I visited Kynance Cove on a gorgeous July evening with my sister.

We swam in the sparkling water and I came home with lots of inspiring photos.

April 23 I produced a print I named Kynance Light and it was my fastest selling  print.

Since then I've kept looking at this photograph and wondering if it was suitable for a print. The blurred patch at the front and the stretched wave had me a bit worried as to whether it would look weird and not work, but the more I kept seeing this photo the more I really liked it, it wasn't going away so here it is.

From the beginning 

photo flipped and the drawing on the lino  

 to get the haze around the light sparkles I printed a pale buff colour first

 next the pale yellow colour of the light patterns in the waves

there's a lot of light in this picture and I didn't want to go dark too quickly , here's the first pale blue of the sea 

after cutting out the pale yellow highlights in the waves the next colour is a pale green 

next I put 3 colours on at once, a darker blue, a darker green and a brown of the sand below the shallow wave 

another darker blue builds up the waves 

starting the light on the rocks at the back,

a rust/plum where the sun catches the edges

the first grey of the distant rocks,

the rust lines are there but hard to see in this pic

next I put on a graduated shade of the rust/plum where the sunlight shone from behind 

hanging up to dry 

the rocks have another dark grey on them

for the final layer I added 4 colours at the same time 

 and got this

which I'm very happy with and think the blurry wave bit at the front worked really well, the print has kept the hazy quality I wanted. 

Wish we'd had evenings like this in July this summer, and in memory of such evenings I'm calling it July ( also because June is now sold out I thought I needed a July)

Limited edition of 20

15 colours

Somerset paper 250gsm

Print size 43.5 x 63.5cm

They're hanging up to dry for 2 weeks but are available to preorder here

 

I will be having it framed in limed white wood for the gallery in St Ives

 

 examples of the print framed and in situ

 

 


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