These are part A of the books I borrowed from the library as reference and inspirations for my final project. 

These are part B of the books i borrowed and actually based on these 3 books for the final composition.

  

Mountains from “Perception and Delusion” and the traditional ships are from “John Constable-oil sketches”, I intended to combine these 2 for the final composition.

These 2 were experiments no.2. I still cannot get the hang of the brush technique and it turned out that I was still contouring the mountains. Also, the size of my ships were too big relative to the mountains and it looked weird. There was little sense of texture as well since the tones throughout the mountains were too inform. After consulting Prof Woon Lam and his help on editing on the left piece, I got a better sense of how to create texture on the mountains. 

Experiments no 3. I also attempted watercolour besides chinese ink. However, the effects were horrible and techniques used were incorrect, resulting in the very light and dry look on the right. Prof Woon Lam also commented that “Dayler Rowny’s Simply Watercolour” has too little pigments and that I should use more to create enough water colour pigments for the painting. (If not, might as well get the more expensive single tube kind) Prof Woon Lam used my watercolour set to demo the piece on the right for me. I did not know that I have to wet the paper first before applying the colour, hence explaining the extremely dry look on mine. The painting I showed him from the “Watercolour Today 2013” book was done using the wet on wet technique.

After much thought, I have decided to use chinese ink as a medium for my final project.