Canal Boat – July 2018

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there was some light/bright contrast to stop

things looking muddy. Sometimes, though,

colours cannot be separated from the overall

design of a livery; you need to consider

colour and layout at the same time, and that

can get complicated.

Layout

• Now for the basic but important rules of
  graphics when choosing a colour scheme:


• If you paint the gunwale and the gunwale
  sides the same colour as the cabin side,
  the boat will look shorter.


• If you divide the cabin side up into lots of
  separate panels, again the boat will look
  shorter.


• If your boat has a typically modern for’end
  with a relatively short deck, if you cram
  loads of diamonds, circles and half moons
  and so on onto the top bends (the bits
  either side that sweep up to the stem bar)
  once again, the boat will look shorter.

When the job is done and ready for

signwriting, try to avoid sticking scrolls or

roses, or anything else for that matter,

between the windows or portholes.

Now, with reference to the above, boats

are, it often seems to me, rather like the

Keep the surface clean

during the project

Each to their own when it

comes to a colour scheme