Above: Bac Mòr from Iona. Mixed media on 16×16″ wood. Rose Strang 2026.

Here’s a video of it being painted …

 

A zoomable version of the painting below, and some details …

This painting was created half in situ on the north beack of Iona, and half in the studio.

It was quite challenging conditions with the sands crumbling beneath me and waves splashing against the rocks as the tide came in. Great fun, I really do enjoy en plein air painting, and feel less moved by painting in the studio.

Having said that, this has been improved by scraping back the original, which creates an almost fresco effect, then adding back in some subtler sea tones and details to the rock pool.

Here are three images showing process. You can see I’ve scraped it back to the plywood beneath in the second one. And you can see how unfinished the first one was, thanks to a rapidly incoming tide …

More soon …