Cropped version of the final piece

iPad watercolor: sailboat and island

After rough sketching, I painted the sky, using the watercolor tool of the Tayasui Sketches app that doesn’t “dry” until you tap the drop icon. While the paper was “wet” I added blue to my purple wash near the horizon:
Rough outline of lines and shapes. The sky is painted blue and purple in watercolour.
On a different layer, I painted the sea:
Sea painted in blue
On a third layer, I painted the rocky island, including the fort. I erased paint from the sailboat and the surf around it. And added a few strokes of different blue on the sea layer:
Brown of various intensity added to the islands, more strokes of blue over the sea.
Then I painted the fort red, darkened the rocks, erased paint where the seagulls were, and painted the sailboat:
I painted the fort red, darkened the rocks, erased paint where the seagulls were, added a red stripe to the sailboat and white foam around it, removed the layer that had the sketch I applied my signature and date at the bottom right.

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