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No a great secret that I love old ships and boats, especially the rusty old steam ships that were still around when I was a child. Many of you might have seen the TV series Parahandy , it was set in Scotland and was about the old Clyde Steam cargo ships that delivered coal and just about everything to the islands and way out of the way coast villages etc . They were and spate still referred to as Clyde puffers , due to them being steam powered through many were later converted to diesel engines. The one I’m concentrating on for this painting was called Pibroch which is a type of bagpipe and music , a long story shortened this ship was anchored up and left to rust till it literally fell apart.
I will include some photos of the ship and my base sketch along with my first painting session.
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I’ve had time to do some more work on this , starting to ad details on the wheelhouse and colour to the hatch cover that up against the wheel house. I decide to use a bright red orange colour on the hull initially as it would have been bright originally, I think it’d easily to work the rust into the colour even lift some out rather than doing it jigsaw fashion a bit ar a time. The inside of the hatch cover is a blue grey colour when it was wet I added burnt Sienna to get the rusty streaks down the hatch, it will need a bit of darker colour to distinguish the deeper rust , many a touch of black or Payne’s grey as well . The idea is to let the paint do most of the work itself by blending in with the wet colours , that’s an advantage of wet in wet .
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by Paul (Dixie) Dean
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Thanks Sandra , yes getting most thinks to look textured is quite difficult in watercolour , but it that sort of difficulty and the challenges it presents that make it so interesting . I let the colour do most of the work, it I let them blend without fiddling the can create some interesting shapes and granulate a bit that give a textured look. It really experimenting every time so easy to look flat as you can’t build up the layers as with acrylic and oils . Just hope it works and if some find it interesting and has a go themselves well that a bonus .
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I'm sure you have tried things like salt, crumpled foil etc - which I've found work very well on some papers, especially Bockingford, but do absolutely nothing on others (or at least, I failed to make any impression with salt on Arches rough). That's a way of adding texture, as is dry-brush or dropping strong colour into a wet or just damp wash - but it takes some pulling off.
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I have used salt before, not tried foil but I don’t think it will give me what I want , I do mostly use strong colours dropped int damp areas if it want it to stay local very wet if I want it t spread over a larger area. Thanks for mentioning the different way of achieving texture Robert always good to be reminded and of course someone else might not have know about the techniques before now .
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I added some more colour yesterday evening , just had a half hour to add some more this afternoon.
Last night’s session
This afternoon I worked on the rust base colours and added a bit more to start developing the detail textured rust towards the bow section. It interesting how different the rusting is on a welded ship like this especially where the plates were subject to the intense heat and riveted plate , the latter seem to rust more evenly across the plates .
This afternoon I worked on the rust base colours and added a bit more to start developing the detail textured rust towards the bow section. It interesting how different the rusting is on a welded ship like this especially where the plates were subject to the intense heat and riveted plate , the latter seem to rust more evenly across the plates .
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Thank you Sandra. Had a busy day sorting out the garden them moving my easel and everything else from the spare room into my shed for the summer , I actually prefer to be out in the shed as I don’t need to be particularly careful, it what the shed was bought for . I did use to paint out there all year round but as I aged I feel the damp and cold even with a small heater on , it going out in the rain to the shed which is known as the Shedio as well . I did get a little bit more done this afternoon very pleasant it was as it was nice and warm out there , worked on the rusty areas a bit more trying to get some texture, use land black quite a bit to get the paint looking as if it’s peeling off the rusty metal.
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I really NEED a shed - but I've led a dissolute life, and don't have one. Just a dedicated corner of one very messy flat. Paul is a man - clearly - of stern morals and a record of remunerative labour.... or in other words, I'm rather jealous of his dedicated space. And the painting is coming on well - this is the sort of thing you could develop for a long time; rust is very rewarding in that respect, but: looking forward to where this poor old tub sails.
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