Sketch for new painting, open for advice

Thank you LRusso!

 

Yes, of course. My father was a painter and one of the things he taught me was that composition is everything. The eye should travel around the painting, directed by objects or faces or just the 'flow" of the scenery. That's a great composition. The barrel of the Churchill is directed over the viewers right shoulder, the rifles and faces direct you left, right and above. There is a feeling of menace - a sniper, a faust about to pop from a window? Safe area or not, the soldiers are not relaxed and their tension is evident.

I hope you post the finished image here for us to enjoy.

 

I don't want to hijack the thread, but I never realized there was so much interest in a depiction of the destroyers in the Taffy 3 fight. Several years back I had intended on doing a mixed media picture of the fight, something along the lines of some of Dwight Shepler's work. I did a bunch of sketch's trying to work out my idea's. I'll post some in a separate thread if there's any interest. Might even take the time to complete a finished piece.