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Working on closeup 51

A small snippet of a woodland based oil painting...

Family Fishing at Eling Tide Mill Hampshire - WIP oil painting stages

Family Fishing at Eling Tide Mill Hampshire - WIP oil painting stages

Family Fishing at Eling Tide Mill Hampshire - stages of oil painting

This oil painting was completed during April 2018. It is painted on mounting board, sized at 20” x 28”. The board is initially painting with a coat of 'gesso' to prime the surface and to stop the oil paint from soaking through the paper. Once this is dry an acrylic orange, paint base is applied to act as a base colour for the entire painting. The next stage is to draw up the scene with brown acrylic paint (and in this case) suggest tonal areas with the use of acrylic white paint, as can be seen in the first panel above. Once all this is done then the painting proper can be undertaken, using oil paint. The second panel shows the under-painting applied using a 'wash' of oil paint. Generally speaking the under-painting is of a darker tone of the final intended colour and tone. The final panel shows the finished painting, with all the correct tones applied. The final layer of oil paint is of a thicker consistency than the under- painting layer, as is applied only when the previous layer is dry.

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

Calshot Tug Boat At Southampton Docks - WIP acrylic painting stages

Calshot Tug Boat At Southampton Docks - WIP acrylic painting stages

Calshot Tug Boat At Southampton Docks - WIP acrylic painting stages

This marine painting is of the vintage tender tugboat 'Calshot', moored at Southampton Docks, and awaiting full preservation.

As the painting features a technical subject and I wanted to have a quick painting work on in progress while working on oil paintings I decided to make this artwork an acrylic one only.

The panel shows four stages of the paintings progress. The first section depicts the initial drawing, done in grey acrylic paint on an light brown 'ground'. In addition washes of white paint have been added to emphasise the tonal range within the artwork. The second and third panels show the darker base colours, using acrylics applied to the painting. These actions are to create the under-painting.

Finally the forth image shows the final image as presented, with the application of the final, correct colours and areas of detail.

The whole painting is done in acrylics on stretched water-colour paper, sized at 20” x 16, and the finished painting can be see here in detail.

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.

Working on closeup 40

Working on closeup 40

A small snippet of a marine based, acrylic painting.... 

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Working on closeup 26

Snippet of WIP an acrylic painting of a forest...... 

Bournemouth Beach Hengistbury Head WIP

Bournemouth Beach Hengistbury Head WIP

This photograph shows WIP on a small painting of Hengistbury Head, as seen from Southbourne beach. Southbourne beach itself runs in to Bournemouth beach, Dorset. It is done on paper, the painted area being 12" x 10". As seen in the first panel the paper is painted red and the drawing done on top with brown acrylic paint. The middle panel shows a half way stage and the last panel the final work.

The final painting can be seen in detail here.

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Hengistbury head from Southbourne Beach WIP acrylic painting