The finished painting of the boat.

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I finished the painting of the boat today. I went and put my painting stuff out just after lunch. The first thing I did was paint in the brown areas in the boat and at the bottom of the boat with burnt umber. I used the edge of a palette knife to edge the boat with burnt umber. I went over some of the white areas, so I had to paint the white back in again afterwards. I added some texture to the sand in the foreground and added some dark shadows in the blue area on the boat. I darkened the shadow area on the white of the boat using a mixture of raw sienna and white. When the burnt umber in the boat was dry I painted in the lighter area in yellow ochre. I added more burnt umber inbetween the areas where the benches would be. I painted in the shadow on the left by adding some black to burnt umber. Then I darkened the shadow area at the bottom of the boat with the same colour because I thought it was too light. I added some white bits on the red part of the boat to represent scratches using the edge of a palette knife When the burnt umber was dry in the boat, I mixed some black and white together to make grey and painted in the benches in the boat. When that was drying I added some more texture and contrast into the sandy areas. When the grey benches were dry, I added some detail with white and burnt umber. Then I called it finished. I went and put it in my bedroom to dry. I had rather a lot of raw sienna on my peel off palette and I didn't want to waste it, so I started filling in some of the wings on my parrot picture to use it up. When I'd done that I still had a bit of raw sienna left, so I got out one of my small canvases that was in my painting set that I bought myself for Christmas, and I covered it with raw sienna! It will serve as the underpainting for a painting in the future, but exactly what it will be I have yet to decide! What do you think of my painting of the boat? I hope you are all having a nice day.