I have long had a desire to capture the activity on the bridge of a warship on convoy duty in World War II. Despite the immense search power of the internet I have found relatively few pictures around which I could compose a painting.
The reason I think is that photography was not encouraged, except on official business, security being paramount. Therefore not many pictures exist, and fewer still that fitted the pose I wanted to execute.
I managed to find a few that approximated the angle I wanted to portray, below are the preliminary ideas followed by the final painting.
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| Initial concept and notes |
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| Sketch of a possible colour palette |
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| The final painting "Officer of the watch" |
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