Wednesday 3 June 2020

America's Cup 2003 Painting Commission

A recent commission to paint the GBR entry to the 2003 America's Cup was a very interesting journey so I felt I would share some of the stages on the way to the final piece.

My client was very clear in his requirements, I had a list of what needed to be included. Thinking forward to the final piece I needed to determine which elements of the requirements took precedence.

A series of pencil sketches refined the most likely routes for an action packed view which I could translate into a impactful painting.

From this I produced five colour sketches (I don't usually do more than three visuals) but in this case I was not sure what my client was expecting to see - and I wanted to experiment.

Initial sketches and a couple of quick watercolour visuals

Visual 1

Visual 2

Visual3

Visual 4

Visual 5

The final artwork