This is really quite dramatic, FD and an excellent take on his painting without copying it exactly. Well done!
Ron

Aivazovski is one of my favorite painter too!
You did very nice interpretation of his painting.

It is interesting, that he never used Prussian Blue paint.

Recent chemical tests found a lot of unexpected things in his paintings:

1. He used Lead White only and newer used any other white pigments.

2 He newer used Naples Yellow and Prussian Blue. He use UMB during only a short period of his work.

3 His favorite and widely used pigments were: Cadmium yellow; Cobalt Violet; Cobalt Green; Viridian and many common earth pigments. He used Cobalt pigments to paint blue.

A great surprise were to find in his paintings so much cadmium and cobalt violet!

I love Aivazovsky! Saw his painting in rl and there are truly phenomenal. So full of life and light. I heard that he painted in front of an audience a lot from start to finish ( he was a very fast painter) and some thought he used some tricks, for example they looked for candles behind the painting.

Great effort here Floating Dove!!! it’s a tough one to copy. I can sure see prussian blue in your painting And wild sky indeed! Here is a link to a site which shows pro artist coping his works. maybe you find it helpful.

http://www.artsstudio.com/reproductions/new_aivazovsky_wave-2.htm

Thank for mentioning about the pallet Gigolot. I guess that’s also why his paintings are so full of light. Titanium white kills color. Too bad lead white is too poisonous. Didn’t know he used cadmium.

Alex