Southampton Cenotaph Autumn - WIP stages

Southampton Cenotaph Autumn - WIP stages

Southampton Cenotaph Autumn - WIP stages of the oil painting

This composite photograph shows progress in stages of a painting called 'Southampton Cenotaph Autumn', created during September 2017, to highlight the season of Autumn, or the fall. The dominant feature of the artwork is the grade 1 listed monument designed by Edwin Lutyens, as to be found in Watts Park, Southampton, Hampshire.

The composition is based on one photograph with people added for scale. The original photograph was taken the previous year, just after Remembrance Sunday.

The first panel shows the initial drawing, scaled up from the composite photograph of the location, done with dark brown acrylic paint on an orange wash, or ground. The second image now shows basic under-painting, done in acrylics, of the basic colours and tones to be found in the scene. The colours are also kept darker than the final finished colours, so that those final colours have something to work against. In the third panel can be seen progress made on the final oil painted layers, while the last image shows the finished landscape painting of the monument in its autumnal setting.

The final painting can be seen in closer detail on this link.