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I had been meaning to get these done for a while now, and I had a lecture on composition today which I found extremely useful as composition and adding depth to a painting has been something I've always had a bit of difficulty with, I wanted to try out some of the composition techniques so I thought I would hit two birds with one stone.

1 is kind of just a generic Battle of Trafalgar scene, but I gave the Barbary pirate ship a coloured sail to make it stand out from the rest, the idea with this one was really just to show the Barbary's infiltrating during the battle.

2 is my favourite, it is the Barbary pirate ship approaching an island after the battle of Trafalgar after being tipped off by the witch, I just think it is the most compositionally interesting one of the three, it also has a kind of sense of mystery, what is in that cave? what is causing the green glow? it kind of tells a story, more successfully than the other two anyway.

3 I kind of tried to play around with a more stylised and colourful colour scheme on this one, it shows the soldier looking over the ship at the island, at a cave that the witch sent him to, I don't really like it, the colour-scheme doesn't really work, and the composition falls behind '2'.

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