October 2018 Challenge: Needles Lighthouse

[JsinOwl]

Here's my preliminary sketch, just trying to work out the composition and proportions. I'm going to move the compass to the bottom left corner and shift the lighthouse detail and titles left. Don't know how I feel about the cursive bay titles. My calligraphy fu is weak.

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[Larb]

Glad to see you're diving right in. I look forward to seeing this develop.

[JsinOwl]

Thanks Larb.


I chose the Lighthouse image to map. I liked the shapes and colors. Turns out that it is the Needles Lighthouse on the Isle of Wight. (Side note: that peninsula looks kind of like a shark with its mouth open to me...) I'm trying to be relatively faithful to reality, but I'll definitely make the coastline a bit less linear so it's more visually interesting.

[Bogie]

Now I can't unsee the shark! LOL
Good start.

[Straf]

Nice start and nice topic. Isn't there a kayak race around there every year? I took part in one around Drake's Island near Plymouth once. It was good fun if a little scary at times.

[JsinOwl]

No idea. I hail from New England as opposed to Olde England. I'm familiar with the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston though!

I'll add my location to my profile whenever I unlock the ability to edit it.

[ChickPea]

Welcome to the challenge!

Didn't realise the lighthouse was on the Isle of Wight, though I did notice the 'white cliffs of Dover' look about it (but I'm sure many places in the world have that look). Your sketch is looking great, and I'm looking forward to your update. And yeah, I can't unsee the shark either lol!

[JsinOwl]

Thanks ChickPea. Here's a useless factoid for the day: in 2010 there was as £500,000 project to save the lighthouse from getting swallowed by the sea.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...o-the-sea.html

I'm trying to sort through a technical issue at the moment. I'd like to mask off the lighthouse inset to make doing a wash across the ocean area a lot easier. I currently have an experiment involving rubber cement underway. The fumes though, bah. If that fails, tape and a razor blade I guess.

[Gidde]

I used some posterboard I had laying around stuck to the watercolor paper with scotch "magic tape" as a mask. didn't make a single mark on the paper.

[bkh1914]

I'd like to mask off the lighthouse inset to make doing a wash across the ocean area a lot easier. I currently have an experiment involving rubber cement underway. The fumes though, bah. If that fails, tape and a razor blade I guess.

They make liquid frisket for temporarily masking areas.
I had some once, but it died in the bottle before I got to really play with it.
Sheet frisket is also available.
Check your favorite art supply store.