Liverpool painting No. 81. Albert Dock and the Brocklebank

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Watercolour 21cm x 14cm

Brocklebank escorted the Royal Yacht Britannia into the Mersey and pushed and pulled countless liners, warships freighters and tankers around the docks.

Following retirement in 1989, she is now the only seagoing vessel owned by a UK national museum.

Brocklebank sails around Britain’s coast as a floating ambassador for Merseyside Maritime Museum.

She is the last operational example of a traditional tug built for the Mersey.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2010/04/27/veteran-mersey-tugboat-brocklebank-open-to-the-public-this-bank-holiday-100252-26323945/

For Painting Students On the Acrylic Course

Working in the style of Charled Reid, paintings by Steve Strode.

Painting classes have started again and it was suggested that painted examples could be added to supplement the lessons, so here goes for the first time, online lesson extensions. Good luck, see you next week.

For those of you wishing to work from home on the computer remember to blow up the image as large as possible

Working from the Charles Reid paintings which I have duplicated, and using the techniques we have covered, work the whole painting wet in wet. Reproduce either study.

Remember

Use acrylic paint diluted at least 3 to 1.
Paint the subject wet in wet.
Shadows are always connected to the subject, and act as an anchor.
Start with the darks and mid value colours leaving the whites till last.
Remember to step back from the painting and review it from at least 8ft or so.
Pure acrylic can be added at the end to regain whites and tint down any colour that is too strong.
Reserve these pure highlights and any splashes of colour until the final part of the painting, which is, adding accents.

For more Charles Reid works visit.

http://www.charlesreidart.com/

http://www.famous-artists-school.com/index.php/fas/charles_reid/

Liverpool painting No. 80. Brookland Road West.

Watercolour 21cm x 14cm

Liverpool painting No. 79. Lime Street.

Watercolour on paper 21cm x 14cm.

I was using watercolour for a change today, finished off with a little white acrylic. It really makes a difference to what you carry around and it's a lot lighter. I had a small hand held watercolour box, one pad, one brush and a small jar of water. I had to be in town all day with only an hour and a bit to spare so minimum fuss meant I could work at this one out doors and out of sight on the steps of St. George's Hall.

Liverpool painting No. 78. Smithdown Road.

Acrylic on canvas board 21cm x 14cm

Liverpool painting No. 77. Stalbridge Avenue

21cm x 14cm Acrylic on canvas board

Liverpool painting No. 76. Harthill Road.

21cm x 14cm Acrylic on canvas board.

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I thought I'd seen this building before, it was in Kay Parrot's, Village Liverpool.

'This is the lodge to Quarry Bank, designed in 1866...The house, in the local dark sandstone, is built in a muscular gothic style.' p102

The building is now the gatehouse to Calderstones school. The original painting was done a hundred years ago in 1910 by Liverpool painter, Frederick Beattie, 1851 1913.