Ship and ice creams at Mayflower Park Southampton - WIP stages

WIP stages of ship docked at Southampton oil painting

A marine based oil painting created during spring 2020. The subject is Mayflower park, a public area in the city of Southampton where the public are able to view ships using the port. While the public buy refreshments from the ice cream van, a cruse ship is in dock preparing for its next voyage.

The panel above, split in to four sections shows different stages of the creation of this artwork. In the first one the scene has been drawn using brown acrylic paint on a light wash. On top of this lighter, tonal areas have been indicated in white, such as the sky. Following on the first layer of oil paint is applied quite lightly, and diluted with a thinner type solution. The colours applied are typically slightly darker, as this is the underpainting, but it gives a good indication of relative tonal and colour variations in the painting. One this level is dry then the final application of paint can be applied. This time the paint will be thicker and to true colour valuations. In addition the painting is a lot tighter on this pass with fine details painted in, as seen in the third panel. The last panel shows the completed painting. The work can be seen in better detail by following this link..