I completely forgotten I’d done this one back in early-mid July during that nice spell. A view of Raven’s Ait along Queen’s Promenade, it’s pretty much the reverse view of the Kingston Bridge oil I just posted – you can see the yellow rails on the mid far right of that picture, just before the barge. I started the picture late one night with the masking fluid, and finished the next day adding gouache to pick out the rails.
I am obsessed about these rails, not sure why they are painted bright yellow, is in an accessibility thing? This stairway is a fairly recent phenomenon, either put in at the time they were redoing the Promenade a couple of years ago, but I think it was after that. And there are visually impaired/blind bumps on the top stair, but the thing is, there isn’t anything else along this part of the river like that to denote the water’s edge. So can’t help thinking it’s a bit of an accessibility death trap…Yellow Stairway to Oblivion!
Strange that anything has been added to the promenade, because in fact tourist signs and general furniture along there has been disappearing recently like the poor trees the builders managed to kill. The only thing that really survived the cull along the grass section is the shiny metal skyline guide and the life rings, and I think some of those have been either re-sited or removed.
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