In this piece i used James' love for seascapes as the subject. He was so captured by South America's canals and waterways that after he visited there he made his famous series of "Nocturne" paintings consisting mostly of seascapes and water. The composition resides a lonely boat floating out beyond his city, which is in the backround, abandoning his home. While making this piece i tried to use the same process that Whistler did as he painted. I started with a red underpainting and gradually made shapes and tones with first browns, then adding blacks blues and some green, and finally putting some white and yellow to even out all the cool colors and also show the lights of the city. This process consisted of multiple layers and a great supply of 'sauce'. (sauce is what Whistler called these huge goops of paint and a lot of liquid mixed together so it's very drippy and messy)
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