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.

Red Boat Wreck Southampton - acrylic painting

Red Boat Wreck Southampton - acrylic painting

Red Boat Wreck Southampton - acrylic painting

Painted in April 2018 the subject of this landscape painting are some of the boat wrecks to be found on this river in the city of Southampton. The river Itchen is host to many old and forgotten vessels, mostly small boats and rowing boats, some of which are now just the 'bones' of their former self.

The view shows two boats, one still painted red and has been converted to hold all sorts of pieces of wood and other junk on top of it. Possibly the boat is actually inhabited! As the river is tidal many wrecks are exposed on the mudflats when the tide is out and disappear when the water returns. In the distance can be seen Bevois Valley.

This acrylic painting measures 20” x 28” and is painted on thick watercolour paper.

A better view of the painting can be found on this link.

Northam boat yards and old boats

Northam boat yards and old boats

 

This painting shows the industrial area by the River Itchen at Northam, Southampton, as viewed from the Bittern side. Various boat yards can be seen on the left and on the right are cranes that work at the scrapyard, used for loading scrap metal on to a ship at least once a week. The tide is out and this reveals a carpet of green algae across the mudflats, inter-cut with small streams ow water running through it. A famous feature of the river is the large amount of old boat wrecks dotted around, a number exposed at low tide.

The painting is painted in acrylics over a few days, on a board measuring 16” x 20”, during April 2014. 

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Northam boat yards and old boats-acrylic painting