Departure Of The Bash Kadin - stage 1

The Bash Kadin is the First Wife of the Sultan; this picture shows her leaving a small quay near the Sultan's Palace on a boat heading who knows where. I still have a choice of the time of day that I want to set it in, originally I saw it as moonlit but it could be sunlit too - either way there will be a considerable amount of flare coming off the reflection in the water. I first "drew" it up with a small bristle brush using a mix of Burnt Sienna and Winsor Violet thinned with Liquin and Lukas Number 5 Medium in the morning session so that it would be dry enough in the afternoon to apply a wash of the same paint mix thinned with turpentine for a basic tonal underpainting. This is another painting hopefully heading for Illuxcon in October.