Yachts in a wave-tossed ocean - original impressionistic artwork by Al Benge

 

Yachts valiantly battling on storm-tossed waves - this is the subject that I chose for my original composition.  It was enjoyable to create - I first made a layer of light blue ocean, then painted dark, rather forbidding rocky cliffs in the background.  The sky is a deeper hue of blue.  The enjoyable part was splashing on the white - working quickly, and without hesitation, dribbling, splashing, and having great fun in the process. . 
The end of my paintbrush was employed at one stage to scratch white marks on the ocean surface.  I managed also to get a good deal of paint on myself in the course of this painting, which entailed a bit of cleaning up at a later stage.

Rural Australia impressionist painting by Alan J. Benge

This is an outback scene that I painted in acrylics.   I  used a dark brown to indicate the horses and trees - there was no attempt to apply detail as in a representational work - as the idea is to convey an impression rather than specific features.  I contrasted the dark brown splodges with orange and white patches.  There is a hint of a blue range of hills in the distance.  I find it fun to work quite quickly on paintings such as this, because the end result can either be a failure or a success, depending on your point of view.