Storm at Sea IV (After Turner)

Joseph Mallord William Turner painted Storm at Sea or Snowstorm, which is at the National Gallery in London. I first saw it at the National Gallery in DC, on tour. It is a remarkable painting. The Royal Academy catalogue of 1842 the entry reads 'Snowstorm - steam boat off a harbor's mouth making signals in shallow water, and going by the lead. The author was in this storm on the night the Ariel left Harwich.' Turner said, "I only painted it because I wished to show what such a scene was like; I got the sailors to lash me to the mast to observe it; I was lashed for four hours and did not expect to escape, but I felt bound to record it if I did. No one has any business to like it."

Here's the underpainting I did for it, followed by my finished painting, followed by the Turner original of 1842.