Why I Wanted to Paint These Beautiful Beach Huts in Edithvale
I have looked at these beach huts at Edithvale many times. They add so much character to this beach and anyone who has been there would know them.
Every time we went there I would consider how they would look as a painting. but I could not decide how to create this painting in a dynamic way using watercolours.
My Challenges With This Painting
The challenges that I faced were, firstly capturing the dynamic scene using the softness of watercolour. My concern was that I would not be able to capture the brilliance of the colour that looked so engaging in real life.
The second challenge was in creating a strong composition that didn’t look too far down the beach, even though there were so many beach huts.
So I began experimenting with outlining these huts to give them a stronger shape that didn’t allow the juts to blend too much with their surroundings. This helped retain each huts in being a strong image, each unto their own.
Designing An Engaging Composition
I also created a composition that just picked out a small selection of huts. There were two specific huts that I really wanted in this painting.
These were the first one that has the little crocodile skull on it, and the last one that has the big yellow sun. To get both of these huts within the painting I needed to remove one or two that were sitting between them to create this group of six
Bringing the Sea Into View
One last element that I wanted to include was an indication of the sea rolling in. I know that realistically, the water would not come up so close, but I wanted to make sure that for people who don’t know Edithvale Beach, that its clear that these are beach huts.
Although adding the water was a bit of a challenge in not ruining the rest of the painting, the water came out well and I was happy with the result.
I believe that the inclusion of the water really set the scene off.