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Thursday, April 14, 2016

A Nautical Painting ... the Basics Are Done

My drawing, with notes on format and direction of graded washes

The NAFCO - a seiner

A photo [taken by Clark Mishler] I found on the internet - loved the local mountains in the background, and the early morning soft colors.

Masked, with initial thin washes of aureolin and quin. rose.


Washes of a blue mixture - cobalt and phthalo blue.

Another wet-in-wet wash of pink ...

... and another of the blues.

Added the mountains with a mixture of indanthrone, aureolin and pink.

GONE! That huge blob of yellow masking was throwing off my eye as to color.

More dark blue washed onto the mountains on the right of the ship.

This is a gift for a friend - one of my sister's boyfriends. He is a manager at the Acura dealership in Langley. He very kindly found a car for me after the accident I had last October.  [My car was a write-off.] The car is a beauty, and was so reasonably priced. I know Gary likes realistic watercolor paintings, and my sister suggested I do one of his dad's fishing boat. I googled the ship's name and found some images, did some drawing, planned a color scheme, and here I am - about a third of the way through. I think the ship will be relatively easy- fussy, but easy.  It's the water that is going to take some thinking and planning.

That's it for now - thank you for dropping by!!

14 comments:

  1. Nice work, the painting is coming along really well. The mountains in the background do add a lot to the scene.

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  2. What a wonderful gift. He is going to love it!

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  3. I do love to see progress shots! So far so good!! :0)

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  4. Wow! This is going to be so beautiful Kathryn! I love the splashes of pink alongside the mountain! I look forward to your next post! This is going to be a happy recipient!

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  5. This is will be so beautiful!
    love
    tweedles

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  6. Am sure it will turn out fabulous!

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  7. What a great gift! Looking good so far!

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  8. very calming colours :D

    is the paper stapled down??

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  9. Awesome Kathryn, and a wonderful gift, I'm sure he will be thrilled ! Looking forward to seeing the final result. xx

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  10. Kathryn, this painting is going to be magnificent! You are off to a great start.. Looking forward to the finished piece.
    You are such a thoughtful person. I am sure he is going to be touched and so happy with your gift of appreciation.
    Have a wonderful weekend.
    Penny

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  11. How thoughtful you are! I think he will be extremely pleased with this gift!

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  12. This is going to be a superb gift Kathryn. Your colors ate gorgeous. So clean and fresh. Hope you and Bruno ate getting some riding time in between your creative endeavors. Hugs!

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  13. He is going to love it! Your drawing and painting so far looks very promising.

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  14. Looking good Kathryn. I like how you approach your paintings. It will be cool to see this completed. Well on it's way already. :)

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