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
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