February - Moored Up

Paul selected Bob's work for critique this month saying: 'Great example here Bob, really well done. I like the way you have manipulated the image in order to extract the details, then created a further modified version, tidying up the composition and adding gulls. I don’t see the painting as scruffy like you imply. There’s a nice painterly feel and some good values, the only area of improvement I would suggest needs to be in the rigging. Use either a very fine rigger brush, ruling pen or just an offcut of watercolour paper. Make sure it has a straight edge, apply the lighter paint along it and stamp it in position. The advantage of using watercolour paper is that you can bend it into shape before you use it as a stamp'.