Granulation

For the non-artists among you - it's a fancy term to describe how some paints separate when they dry... some are designed to do it for textural effects. This one (part of a detail of one of my works for the St Mary project), is a watercolour paint by Daniel Smith called Blue Apatite Genuine. They have really naff names but I love their paints.
I dried this wash under some cling film for added effect.
Oh and it's upside down. Sorry. Needed it to be that way so I could dry the sky so it didn't run into the land... it's meant to be abstract but I can only go so far down that road :-)
This piece will have this poem - or maybe just parts of the poem, added...somewhere... somehow... am thinking letraset at the moment... handwriting just gives too much of a signature for what I want here...

Off St Mary's.
A fortnight of raging seas
have scoured
sand layers
to expose
honey yellow limestone.



Looped and scooped
into sea-carved curves
sculpted to match
any Moore
it noses towards the land.

Naked from
its sleep underground
its flanks
squeeze cracks
crammed
with erratics

with storms

with history.