Tollesbury Lightship

Okay, so I guess this turned out alright in the end. But the battle I had with it was a struggle. I messed the sky up with a schoolboy error of adding paint to a wet area that was too watery and the water spread removing some of the blue wash I had just put down (see top right).

I always have problems with my foregrounds. At one stage this was an even bigger mess than it ended up as. I had, in desperation, to use cling film, Maldon Sea Salt (ironic really) and a sponge to wrestle it back from oblivion. Pathetic too was the need to use white paint but it did help.

The ship was well behaved and worked really well and overall, I think it just about made it into the paintings I quite like.