Approx. 66 cm (w) x 45 cm (h), oil paints on linen canvas.

To do this painting, I was sitting at the northern end of a road bridge that crosses the Torrens River, near where it flows into the sea. I was keen to record the real colours observed, as quickly as possible, because the light changes quite quickly at this time of the day. This painting was the result after about 3 or 4 days of working on the painting, for a short span of time each day (because the light changed quickly at this time of the day). I really wanted to get a finer level of detail within this painting, but I realised that it would take many days of returning to this spot to achieve that, and the weather conditions changed considerably after I got this far. By the time the weather conditions were felt to be similar, it was a few weeks down the track from when I had had my last session, and the sun had moved noticeably in its position around the horizon by then. I noticed that the shadows were quite different, as were the sunlit patches, and the surface of the sea, etc.

In the interest of honesty, I decided to keep this painting at this stage.

This detail is from a different photo to the one used for the overview.

I no longer have this painting, and the only record I have of it are these two photographs (the overview photograph and this detail photograph). The original overview photo was unfortunately taken a little out of focus, and so it doesn’t show the level of detail captured by most of my reproduction photographs. This detail photograph does give an idea of the surface of the painting, on the prepared linen canvas.

This detail is a section of the Detail 1 photograph.

This detail is another section of the Detail 1 photograph.

This detail is a section of the overview photograph (which was unfortunately taken slightly out of focus).

This detail is another section of the overview photograph (which was unfortunately taken slightly out of focus).