I recently took another look at the Spooner's Cove No. 02 picture I created last year and decided to make some changes to it. I wanted to add some more detail while keeping the abstract theme and retaining the flat colors.
I didn't want to add texture to the colors like I have been doing by brushing over colors with the “Old Oil” brush using the same color which creates slightly darker and lighter streaks then filling it with a darker shade of the color. See the picture below for an example.
The original painting. It didn’t seem as finished as I thought it was and I wasn’t happy with the foreground.
I began by changing the foreground by adding some more shapes and modifying a few colors.
I added some more colors to the foreground and made some changes to the sky, the beach and the small section of waves and rock at the left of the picture.
Using the “Old Oil” brush this texture was created by brushing random strokes over a block filled with yellow using the same yellow color. This created some very light marks. Using the Fill tool with a tolerance setting of 2 or 1, the yellow block was filled with a darker color bringing out the lighter marks.