Red Boat Wreck Southampton - WIP oil painting stages

Red Boat Wreck Southampton - WIP oil painting stages

'Red Boat Wreck Southampton' painting in stages

'Red Boat Wreck Southampton' was painted during April 2018, and depicts a scene on the River Itchen, Southampton that is home to many boat wrecks.

In this WIP panel can be seen some of the stages of this acrylic painting, painted over a period of 10 days. In the first section can be seen the initial drawing of the scene with a wash applied for the tonally dark areas using 'paynes grey' coloured paint, and a white wash used for the areas of very light tonal values. This is done on top of a red/ brown 'ground' which acts as a base for the colours. 
The second panel now shows an initial layer of colours applied over the painting, at slightly darker values, which acts as the under painting. 
In the final section can be seen the finished painting, with the correct colour values painted on top of the under-painting. In addition the details in the painting are refined at this stage.

As the painting is all done in acrylic, it was quicker to do as there is no waiting for areas to dry, unlike oil paint.

The finished painting can be seen at a larger scale here.