There were so many wonderful pieces to paint and I had only time to work on one and I chose the one with the ship bookends with the beautifully bound leather books on sailing.
After drawing my sketch I painted in the background using mixtures of aureolin, cadmium yellow, raw sienna and a touch of burnt sienna.
The table cloth was mixtures of Antwerp blue and raw sienna and I will have to go back into it later and give more definition to the folds in the cloth.
Just before the break I painted the ship bookends with a wash of raw sienna and left it to dry.
I wanted to capture the rich burgundy colour of the leather bindings on the books. It took a couple of tries to get the correct mix of alizarin crimson, French ultramarine blue with a touch of cadmium yellow to get the colour I was after.
I will post this painting at a later date once more work on it has been completed.
Thank you for coming to look at my artwork and I hope you will return often.
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