I had the day off from work today so I worked on this painting and was able to salvage the background from the previous attempt at rendering the distant storm clouds. They ere nothing like I had envisioned and were failing miserably. I came very close to trashing the whole piece, but decided to paint over the color pencil clouds with oils. I feel much better about the results now. All that is left is some detail work on all the little aerials, lights, and various protrusions on the boat. I want to finish and move on to something new.
