Graham Jowett-Ive Demo

Some quick jotted notes I made during the interesting demo by Graham Jowett-Ive.

Notice the sky colour on clear sunsets/ sunrises, there is a general rainbow effect.
Use same colour in water as sky, calm seas easier.
Don't use pure paint or pure white.
Mixing oils on greaseproof paper.
Use of liquin as a reducing oil, this is a drying and smoothing agent.

A favourite colour is permanent rose, use with cobalt blue for cloud shadow colour.
Hue in title of paint = cheap pigment .

Seas
Blue sea = sunny day, Green sea = overcast sky
Think about scale and perspective.  Dry brush acrylic paint to start, bluish green horizon.
Don't make waves too steep.
More paint and darker, use brush tip to put on thin strokes.
Leave acrylic to dry (10 mins drying time is big advantage), then use oils.
Liquin or turps for thinning. Watery wash of blue makes sea comes to life
Add light then dark then light .... maybe 20 layers, repeating lines, finished with rigger. 
Make broken waves curl over top of shadow side with off white.
Accentuating sides of waves also dark and light side of picture. 
Paint waves on waves.
Mix pale blue then accentuate some of the lines, i.e. spume, make light touches on the waves.


For masts and rigging use special triangular ruler and  cheap rigger brushes.
Paint clouds first on white canvas, use big brush to stop fiddling .
Only use titanium white, mix in tiny amounts of colour, e.g. Yellow ochre + Cobalt blue for clouds.
Cerulean blue + white for sky colour,  paint around clouds and blend bands of darker colour towards top of sky.