Second attempt with first boardwalk

The more I looked it the more I just didn't like my first shadows, so I sort of smeared white spirit on the path bit,  rubbed it, and left myself with a fine blue mess to work on.

I think that's a bit better. When I started this painting malarky I bought short sharpish flat brushes for still life, I'm not sure they are the best for landscapes though, bit cartoony and edgy sometimes when you are looking for soft. Therefore I have ordered some filberts, partly because it's one of those lovely words that you just have to keep repeating, filbert filbert filbert. Must be time for my afternoon nap. 

Blue Boardwalks

We are fabulously lucky around here for fantastic walks within a really short distance. We go to the Moat once or twice a week, where there are boardwalks out over a nature reserve/wetland/bog. The colours can be spectacular sometimes, with vivid bright blue, or ultramarine, or slate gray water, and sometimes the boardwalks look bright blue.

Honest - they can look that blue. Not that cartoony, not that jaggedy, but really, that blue.