Evening At Southampton Common Lake - WIP oil painting stages

Evening At Southampton Common Lake - WIP oil painting stages

painting in WIP stages - Evening At Southampton Common Lake

This oil painting features a scene at an ornamental lake within Southampton common, itself to be found in the middle of the city of Southampton. Above, the panel shows the artwork in stages. The initial stage is the composition drawn out in grey acrylic paint on a light brown ground base. The tonally brighter areas have been painted with a white wash, namely the sky and reflection to act as a guide and to help the painting tonally overall. The second panel shows an application of oil paint, diluted with thinner and applied as a wash with slightly darker colours, to act as under-painting. Once this has dried after a week or so the main body of paint, using oil paint straight out of the tube is applied, and it is at this stage that the correct colours and details are applied, with the forth panel showing the completed artwork which is done on a 16" x 20" canvas. 
The final painting can be seen at a higher resolution here.