P&O Azura Cruise Ship

This image of the P&O Cruise Ship the 'Azura' is very much 'work in progress'. The 22 x 18 inch canvas board needed two coats of (The Works) acrylic gesso to cover the previous sprayed on testing work from when I was into trying to use an air brush and had divided this canvas board into four sections.  The (Winsor & Newton, 'Galleria') Burnt Sienna acrylic also needed two coats. I was warned that the pigment wasn't strong, but if it's all you can afford, then it is simply all that you can afford.  But as you can see; I'm down to starting the (Lefranc & Bourgeois and Galleria) acrylic colours now. 

So far all of the painting has been done with a 3/4 inch 'one stroke' brush shown in the photograph, but I'll probably use a short handled No.12 'Filbert' brush and a 1 inch 'Script', if only because I bought them a few weeks ago for my Pochade Box.  They will probably help with the detail on the Azura.  Especially if I use the artists pigment 'Cryla' on the P&O ship.  I also intend to include one or two modelling acrylic colours on the sea. You know the kind, the ones that you use to paint toy soldiers. So with that in mind, it's time to soldier on, splash out the black, ultramarine, and titanium white and do some more very enjoyable painting.