Saturday 23rd of February. I spent the morning painting the roses in the garden at home. However, after two attempts I called it quits, scraped down my efforts and went to lunch. Later in the afternoon I cycled around the bay and had a crack at an old favourite, the string of islands that make up King’s Point. The view lends itself to a very long landscape canvas, but it’s perfectly fine to take a small interesting section and work in a squarer format. The water was silver, with blue green tinges. Once again, paint what you see not what you think it should be. A muffled blanket of light grey cloud cover became warmer with streaks of light as I worked, and tied in nicely with the band of sand on the island at right. I shortened the distance between the two Islands in order to include the edge of this beach, after initially thinking I would simply include the Eastern edge of the tree-lined Island and a few of the rocks slipping into the water.