Starting a new painting in the vein of harbor town series, here is the initial sketch and then edited a bit in photoshop to see how things come together, I also play with it in Photoshop because it is so much fun.  Will use  a 30 by  30 canvas. 
I took my small whaler out yesterday and took some shots of the houses and cottages along the Westport River, mostly near the Point and Lee's Wharf.  I used some of theses shapes for reference, I am not good at just making up buildings.

Seaglass

Well here goes, 36x36 canvas.  I usually do an under color, mostly red or orange, but decided not to this time.

 

 

 

 

Boy, what a mess, but this is the  fun part.

Starting to take some shape, breaking up some of objects to vary the scale of the elements.

 

 

A Close up of the  center of interest in the painting, maybe

 

 

 

 

                         Working out the background and need to pull the elements together.

This is the almost final painting, I like to let it rest for a few days and do some little tweeking, the icing on the cake.