Amazing what a brush and a scraper tool can do

So there I was thinking, what shall I paint.  I had my reference photos open and have for ages thought about capturing one in particular....this one from West Bay in Dorset.

But how to tackle it without it being very standard, neat and actually end up with no character to the art.  So I went for loose and free.

As you see I completely changed the colour of the sand cliffs and it took  on a whole new life.

I used a large brush to apply splats (yes, I said Splats) of paint and then used one of these,

A very technical tool, a cut up plastic card, which I literally scraped across the wet paint I had applied.  I did that very randomly and the end result was the painting above.