Daybreak at Cassis, near Marseilles 1920

Winston Churchill painted "Daybreak at Cassis, near Marseilles" with what looks like fairly loose, intuitive brushstrokes. The texture here is so-so smooth, the paint applied thinly in layers. The colour is built up with delicate touches of lighter tones over darker ones, giving a sense of light filtering through the leaves. I wonder what kind of brushes he used, as there is a softness, a blendy kind of quality. Look at the way the light falls on the pathway. He creates the shadows with darker greens, that also suggest the coolness of the shade. Churchill painted throughout his life and he has an interesting sense of colour that puts me in mind of Bonnard, another artist who understood that painting, really, is all about colour. Neither artist seemed too concerned with the subject matter, or with making a big statement, they just wanted to capture the feeling of a place or a moment in time.