Project 6: Acrylics Final Design

A Welsh flag was added to the main boat at the front, it gives the viewer an idea where the image is from without reading the title of the painting. PLEASE DOUBLE CLICK THE IMAGES FOR A LARGER VIEW

I cant show you every little change that I made with the painting as there will be too much of it so below is an image where I was once happy with the finished design. The finished design was then put away for a couple of months whilst I got on with another project.



Project 6: Acrylics Final Design

Castle was the next thing I looked at I didn't like the blue colour I used as there wasn't much contrast between the sky and the castle. So I decided to look at the colour of the castle, it was heading in the right direction but the image was too flat.

Project 6: Acrylics Final Design

It was now time to have a look at the sky, I laid some colours down but I wasn’t happy with them, I didn’t even try to blend to colours together they were just wrong. So I decided to start over again and I covered the sky with Gesso to get rid of the mess. Finally I decided that the colours in the sky were too vivid and I wanted to fade them away and not have them so over powering. When I was sampling I used Gesso to mix in with the acrylics and they made the colours a lot paler. I thought I would try the same thing for the sky so I added Gesso to the colours that I used previously in the sky. You can see that it turned out a lot paler and because I added the Gesso to all the colours in the sky it harmonised it all together. I think the sky looks more effective this way and it’s working a lot better then it was but whether I will leave it that way only time can tell. Please Double Click the Images for a larger image.

Project 6: Acrylics Final Design

The final drawing on the canvas board with the boats, it might change along the way but for know this is the image I want to use. Please Double Click the images for full size.



Ive go to start somewhere with the paint so I started with the sea first as I thought this was the most important part.

Project 6: Acrylics Final Design

I've never drawn a boat before so I did some sketchs whilst I were at Conwy Castle, one page was done with a pencil and the other page with a fineliner. Please double click the images for a larger image.