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The next day, I cycled to the Thames to paint:
It was probably a silly idea to paint Westminster Palace as a background just like a quick sketch...But I liked this little boathouse with its pier and gangway so much...!
I was very surprised that in London, so far from the sea, the tides are so noticeable:
In the two hours that I was painting, the water sank rapidly: at the beginning, the gangway was still horizontal, and the house clearly overlapped the opposite bank – at first I thought I just hadn't looked properly :-)
The colour of the Thames actually corresponds exactly to the greenish grey tone of my palette smudges: these are paint leftovers that I have collected during my travels over the last few weeks/months. So the colour of the Thames is the colour of the beach, the colour of the forest; the colour of the Allgäu, the colour of Brittany, the colour of Amrum and more...
Incidentally, this painting was bought off my easel (well, almost: I took it home with me to varnish it) – you can't just pack up a wet oil painting and send it off. It's a shame, now I have to go to the trouble of sending it to the USA.



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