I have built the Dock Basin.

I wanted to opt for try-out no.4 acrylic paste, paint & varnish and a wooden pillar. But unfortunately my acrylic past wasn't doing the job properly. So I made a small change here. Instead of acrylic paste I used Gesso. Gesso is a base that is used to prepare the painting surface for acrylic paintings etc.

The edge is made of separate build card edgings stones. On internet I found a stone merchant who had edge quay stones for sale. He also mentioned the size of the edge stones. I recalculated them for 4 mm to a foot: 19 mm long, 13 mm wide and 5 mm high. I made them 4 mm high, because that would make the way I want to make the track in the way easier for me.

After I had completed the quay, pillars and the edge I gave them I first weathering. Then I gave it a coat of varnish for water color paintings.

Next step was to paint the water surface. I gave it one coat of gesso, two coats of my mixture of Payne’s grey and Chromium Oxide Green acrylic paint and finally three coats of glossy varnish.

After drying I started to give it a final weathering. I liked to give the alga along the edge of the water surface some more texture.

Painting the water surface I hit on several places the quay. To hide this I made a mixture of PVA glue with greenish umber pigments. With a small brush I did hide the green water surface paint. In the still wet PVA paint I sprinkled some greenish umber pigment.

Next step was to use some of the PVA paint to add some Woodlands burnt grass.

Direct after applying I removed the supply of the burnt grass by knocking it off.

The final result you can see in the pictures below.

Basin overview &

Basin detail.

Below I summery of the materials I used:

• Dock wall and pillars: texture from Scalescenes
  
• Edge : seamless concrete quay wall texture from CGtextures
  
• Payne’s grey and Chromium Oxide Green acrylic paint
  
• PVA glue and PRITT glue
  
• greenish umber pigment from an art shop
  
• acrylic pencils: for instance green oxide, red chalk, sepia
  
• my scraped chalk mixture for general weathering: 6 parts white, 1 part brown, 2 parts black
  
• Woodlands burnt grass T44
  
• embossing pens
  
• and standard tools for card building.
  

Next couple of weeks I'm going on holiday. Walking in the woods, cleaning up my head. So you have to wait for my next entry for a couple of weeks.

Regards,

Job