Welcome back.
This week we’ll be continuing with the painting that was inspired by the Sedona, Arizona scene seen in the photo directly below.
When last we were together, the painting appeared as it does in the photo directly below.
Since that time I have continued to work on the painting. At this point it is almost done, but the final installment for this piece will be next week.
The partial foreground car has been enlarged a bit. It just feels better in this slightly larger size, more in balance with the other elements. Also, it now appears in red paint rather than last week’s blue. This red carries over the red color from other elements into the foreground. Now, the eye follows the red from buttes to the central car to the foreground. In short, a rather small change has had a large impact.
The details of the central building have been simplified. The structure is now more in keeping with my original experiment, a simple depiction using only 4 tubes of paint.
The current appearance of the painting appears below.
Next week’s installment will show the final changes. There are just a few things left to be done. See you then.
Paint me a picture of your thoughts.
I really liked the blue car … and now that you changed it, the red looks good! A question: when you paint over the blue car, do you put down some sort of base colour first — how do you paint red over blue and have it be a true red colour.
I agree with Olivia about the changing of the colors, but I still want to see you waving out one of the windows. 🙂
Hay, Olivia! There’s no in between color, I just put down the new color. It may take a couple of layers to fully cover though.
Have you deliberately made the license tag number fuzzy to protect the identity of the owner? Someone who perhaps shouldn’t be at a desert hotel? Who should be out buying a gift for their wife’s birthday instead? Enquiring minds want to know :o)
It is actually my initials. But I don’t usually go to that hotel anyomore.
And there is no downstairs door to the living quarters because???
— the owner is in the car all the time and doesn’t really live there?
— you’ve bricked it up?