A study drawn from the panel's palette card, at its real 60 × 40 cm proportions. Photography follows when the piece is photographed under the north window.

Spring tides are the big ones. The tallest panel of the series, hung portrait so the pours read as depth instead of horizon.

• Petrol night#0E2233
• Tide teal#2E6E6A
• Foam silver#AEB2B5
• Deep pine#173432
• Moon oat#F2EFE8

1. Cradled birch panel, two sealed gesso coats
2. Deep pine ground
3. Six pours, the widest tidal range in the series
4. Foam line dragged with a card, not a brush
5. Full resin flood