Acrylic painting step by step - Boat part 3

After the third stage of painting, it's starting to look a lot more complete. I've worked on the sky gradient, blending from a lightish cobalt blue with a hint of green, adding more and more titanium white as it gets closer to the horizon. I've filled in the blue hull of the boat with a dark phthalo blue mixed with paynes grey. The blue is actually still a little too bright, so I'll have to add a darker layer with more grey. I've put down a base for the reflection in the water beneath the boat. Obviously the hull is reflected in the water, so there is a lot of blue in there, but it also retains some of the green from the sea, so the basic colour is a dark blue-green, which will be highlighted later with lighter greens and whites from the cabin. Now the sky is done, I can get to work on the mast.


Step 3 - painting the hull, reflection, and blending the sky

Step 1 - Step 2

Tags: painting, acrylics, art technique