Boats in the Landscape

As landscape painters we often meet boat scenes, and their success depends on how well the boats are integrated into the subject. It can be challenging — not only because of the particular shape of a boat, but because of its place in the composition. Compared with the large shapes of a landscape, boats are small shapes we use to emphasise a point of interest.

The lesson looks closely at every aspect of drawing and painting boats, in three parts: construction and drawing, composition and integration, technique.