Turner update

Here is today's progress on my 'after' Turner painting.  One hour this morning, some more research for an hour this afternoon, and then about another one and a half hours of painting.  I'm very pleased with the progress, albeit I had to stretch to buying some more Daler Rowney 'System 3' acrylic paint brushes as the ones that I had were simply too broad for the finer detail.  The other sticking point is simply the lack of good quality images of Turner's 'Fishermen at Sea' image online. 

Photo: An extract showing my progress so far on the main boat 

A lot of the detail is going to be a 'best guess'. Which is a pity, because once I get to see the original oil on canvas painting; I will see my errors and will have to consider repainting the whole blinking thing. So a better solution would be to source a nice crisp image showing all of the detail, now!

Especially a clear shot of the boat beyond the main one. I've trawled the Internet and checked out a few books.  Maybe I will end up in the National Library to see if they have a large print reproduction of the original inside one of their holdings.  

Another approach would be to continue as far as I can. Then stop and store the work.  Visit the Tate, do some sketching and then return to complete my inferior copy.  The main problem with that approach, is that it means longing it out.  And I don't like longing anything out, which is probably why I give oil painting a miss.