Study after Ajvazovsky “Ship near the shore”

Turned out real nice. Good clouds and nice sea.

The sails have a beautiful glow of the sun and great shape and shading

Really nice ,well done! The boat is great but my fave bit has to be the sea.

That is what you call "kicking it up another notch. Very nice and professioal looking, the kind you see hanging on walls.

Well done! I love paintings with a maritime theme.
What was your biggest challenge with this one?

This is such a beautiful work. The towering clouds have such great blended color and depth. The water reflections are lovely along with the very detailed sail boat.

My goodness, you are truly the 'Admiral' of this community with your maritime enadeavours!
This is another breathtaking adventure from you Sunnylady! I could highlight all of the items, since they deserve it, but will stick to one that really caught my eye! That sea bird taking off from the water, leaving it sprinkled! A GEM creative idea!!

Dear All, thank you for your kind words and liking this seascape. I am so grateful to you all for your endless support and discussions we have here!

@Felix: sky was a challenge. First is doing gradation of colors from green to the blue which should have turned more gray and calm, second we’re clouds I followed the instructor bur I could not catch the right brush strokes to create shapes of shadows and light and I was not looking at original reference while doing the sky. I am not quite happy with the sky.

When I started doing the sea and ship I changed approach so I cross checked quite a lot.

WOW! What a beautiful composition. Gives an air of romance in this paitning.
I love those clouds, such character, and the boat is charming.
Fab depth and reflections on the water.

@gunaM, @ Mrc C - thank you very much!

@ Mrc C - you are right, original author is great romantic marine painter. His works are amazing and impressive not only in his skill but very often in its size.

Here is the link to the original, so you can zoom and enjoy.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/russian-pictures-l17115/lot.1.html

Wow Sunnylady, this is amazing! The pink highlights on the water, the detail in the sails, and the low-flying birds make a beautiful painting! I always enjoy seeing your work

@KJ Thank You very much, I am so pleased you like it as many other artists here and everyone is so kind!
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Thank you my dear artists!

It’s one of those paintings that caught my eye and had to stop for a closer look. It is fantastic work and the ship is so nicely situated in the water! Great job!

Thanks Lzicchinella! I am super happy you like it! I looked at it at day light today and changed to quite happy about this painting as I painted it with artificial lights (which are 6500 K and this is closest I could buy to 5500K) is quite blue.

Trick about the ship seems to be the bottom needs to be horizontal at that distance from the viewer. I have in mind quite an easy painting for bigger ship at night/sunrise/moon and I already watched video and instructor says that bottom should be horizontal too. So I do not know if that is a general rule to sit the ship in the painting. I did not paid attention before. But I will from now.

How Beautyful this is. Realy. GREAT!!

Thank you Hado!

Wow 😲it a lovely maritime landscape. Bravo so peaceful.

Thank you patriziad!

Oh goodness, I missed this one in my feed, but am glad I came across it. Excellent job @SunnyLady! The distant mountains, the glassy sea, the thunderclouds, and the lone ship all come together perfectly.

One word, awesome! ( I know that technically that was three words but you get my drift) To me this picture is just perfect, from that sky to the turquoise sea to that ship, truly fantastic painting.

@dracula - Thank you very much my dear Dracula, I really appreciate your words and support!

@ Nivek. - you are so kind! I am so happy you are enjoying this painting!

It's an amazing painting! Very beautiful! You have real talent!

@Turolga. Thank you very much! I am still at stage when I follow along the videos with a lot of pauses to catch up. What is different I think I like sea more than land. I also think that learning from many instructors is more valuable because this gives variety in techniques and allows to try new things.

Just amazing and beautiful. I love it. The boat is terriffic. The background mountains hills are great.

@LJM- Thank you so very much!

@LJM- Thank you so very much!

@LJM- Thank you so very much!

Wow, this is amazing. My mother keeps telling me to go off and try my own thing, but I am not confident yet. But you are an inspiration!

Wow, RosaLima thank you. You are way too kind to me and hard to yourself. This is video tutorial as well. I still keep learning too. This is the same guy from Honey bliss and Light on the water and from December sea. He is awesome and his color work is fantastic. He uses limited pallet as well. I listed colors in one of those and video links too. Even video is in Russian I am sure you can follow along as operator work is great and they show very well what happens on the pallet. Liquid he uses is called tee. But you can mix stand linseed oil and odorless paint thinner 60/40 % proportions.

If you follow even one video with him, it will give you a lot of knowledge on color.
Please let yourself a go. You surely will manage!

If you decide to follow in one of the videos -tell me and I will translate the difficult place for you to English.

Did you post the link for the tutorial somewhere? I don't seem to find it.

Aah, you mean video link to this particular one. Here it is https://youtu.be/dajI9A2YZq0.

I copied the list of the colors in the description and painting medium as well. I used 2 component mix this time.

One more moment it seems that video is not supported by some countries. Tel reported he could not access the link in one of the other paintings.

Beautiful coloring and composition. Love how fluffy the clouds are!

Thank you @fanatic.productions. I wish one day I will be able to Paint something like this on my own.