Acrylic painting step by step - Boat part 4

This is turning into a long process. I hope I can get it finished by next Thursday, when I'm going to my sister's for Christmas. Here's what I did last night. I've added the dark blue shadows to the hull, and painted the four fenders along the side. They look a bit wierd just floating there, but I'll add the ropes in the final stage as they are in front of everything else. Note the reflections of the fenders in the water. I need to add a little green to those, as they retain some of the green from the water. I then painted the anchor bracket on the bow, with a simple mixture of Payne's Grey and Titanium White. Next, a little detail on the windows and curtains in the back cabin, and I was going to finish for the day, but I just had a nice little blob of white paint left on my pallette, so I refined some of the edges on the cabin and sketched in the mast. Here, the white will show through later, ensuring the brown of the wooden mast remains bright. Finally I added the radar and little gadgets on the mast. Next I'll start to add some warm shadows to the white cabin and work on the mast some more.


Step 4 - More shadows on the hull, painting the fenders and mast.

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