On one of my many painting excursions to West vancouver, I stumbled across this scene at Golden Hour one summer, Everything was perfect, the yellow boat and the light made for a stunning scene. Trying to capture the out of focus background was an interesting challenge, the blue of the sky took many, many glazed layers of different blues and the super dark foreground needed to be cool and dark but still interesting. My favourite aspect of this painting though, is the composition, the gangplank just takes the viewer right into the painting.