A beautiful and still morning on Lake Windermere. It was frosty, zero degrees and very cold hands and feet, but I didn’t really notice until I finished as I really enjoyed painting this scene of soft light and pastel colours.
Initially I was waiting for the mist to clear to paint what was behind it and then I decided to embrace it!
The yacht was moving 360 degrees about every 20 minutes so I caught it at this point thinking it was a less obvious view than to side on. The boats on the left were tourist pleasure cruises, and they were warming up ready to leave so it felt a little pressured not knowing when they would go!
I included the jetty to help with composition as the diagonal line of it leads you into the painting and breaks up the horizontal bands – same with the mast of the boat.
This is when a panoramic format works well and I’m really happy with the final painting 🙂
I would love to hear your comments on what you think of it….