Boats revisited!

This is the 2nd picture I have worked on in Fiona's class. We used the earlier lessons of deciding on the COI and also the palette and colour values, to get ready to start this painting. I give the reference picture first:

Ona suggested I mix greys from other colours and put me on to a link at Wet canvas. So I practiced some greys and made some value strips, which looked like this:

After this I made the value strips of the colours I thought I would use and that came out like this:

I then drew the picture on Cansons 300 gsm paper (rough) 15 X 11"

I then painted the first picture which looks like this:

I wasn't too happy with the picture because I felt I hadn't got the feeling of distance as well as I wanted to and the misty feeling was definitely missing. Ona shared 'a technique you can use is to glaze over everything in the distance apart from your COI with a clear wash of water a couple times, letting it dry in between. You could even add a glaze or two of a pale blue again after this if it still needs a bit of misting. Washes over the top of detail help to soften the edges and create a more misty/smoky/distant feel'.
What an amazing technique....as I did just that and the final picture has come out as I wanted it and is given below: