The drawing comes first

Protect your whites with masking fluid

Creating the sky with a subdued wash.

At this point we need to add washes to the water.

Start adding colour to the barge sails

In this section we will start on the main barge.

Here we will define the far barge and start adding ripples to the water.

Now we will detail the sails and add reflections to the water.

Now to paint in the barge rigging.

Now we start detailing the barges.

Adding all those little accents.

Here we add some loose brushstrokes to suggest movement in the water.