Demonstration

The Old Girl of the Adriatic

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Brushes

● Winsor & Newton

Artisan filbert No. 12

● Rosemary & Co. Ivory small Round bristle Nos. 0 & 2)

● Rosemary & Co. short flats Nos. 2/0, 0 & 2

● Rosemary & Co Rigger Series 771 sable blend

No. 0

● A No. 8 synthetic watercolour brush

Artisan water-mixable oils

● Cerulean blue

● Cobalt blue

● Titanium white

● Zinc white

● Payne’s grey

● Raw sienna

● Burnt sienna

● Cadmium red hue

● Cadmium yellow pale

Miscellaneous

● Painting knife (kite-shaped for mixing)

● HB graphite pencil

● Raw sienna acrylic paint

● Artisan painting medium 3 The lamppost was put in with pale white and Payne’s grey, with an off-white touch for the lamp itself. I added details to the superstructure of the boat with mixes of Payne’s grey and white, with a little raw umber here and there. The holes in the radar masts were the sky colour and details added with the grey mixes.

4 The shadows on the superstructure were a mix of cerulean blue, Payne’s grey and white, which I also used in patches to suggest peeling paint. The tyres on the quayside were added with slightly lightened Payne’s grey. The stones of the left-hand quayside were painted with shades of raw sienna with touches of raw umber and even a little cerulean blue in a few.

Step 4

1 I mixed Payne’s grey with a little cerulean blue and white and put in the darker shadow areas at the bow and stern. I touched a little white into this to create the dappled reflections from the water.

2 I added more detailing with light blue-greys between the rust streaks on the hull and strengthened the streaks with mixes of burnt sienna with cadmium yellow pale and white where it needed more of an orange shade and darkened with a little raw umber where it was darker, creating the striped effect on the hull.

3 I strengthened the dark blue and grey side of the derrick with cerulean blue and Payne’s grey and lightened the highlight side a little more.