PHOTOS

Sunset painting photos in progress

December 13, 2011

Hi everyone, I played with color today. I thought I would post my source on this painting so that you could see how I often work. I had an old photo that I started with, then let my imagination take over with color. I’ve also posted a few photos of my progression of the painting. [...]

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Progression of Painting a Late Day Sun

August 16, 2011

I started with a rudimentary drawing. Then blocked in the large dark shapes. The sun will come from the right, so that is the lightest side of the trees. dioxazene purple, sap green, cad red light, Permanent green light, cad yellow med and a little white. That’s it so far. Here I started adding my [...]

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Landscape oil painting in the studio

July 1, 2011

I painted this in the studio using my imagination. I started with a dark form creating the overall design. I used a large brush with alizarine and sap green, painting a rough shape without branches or trunks. I then went in painting negative and positive shapes and kept the edges soft. As I refined [...]

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