Welcome back.
This week we will be continuing the 10 x 10 scene of the creek and buttes in Sedona, Arizona. I will be using the photo seen directly below and using my usual acrylics.
When last seen, the painting appeared as it does in the photo directly below.
Since that time, I have continued to work on the painting.
I have worked on several aspects of the painting. I’ve revised slightly the rocks amongst the reflections, adjusting the edges and highlights. The front lower left has had an edge adjustment.
I’ve also adjusted the bushes a bit. The shadowing includes colors seen in other parts of the painting, including some blue. The lit areas have also been changed to show a brighter look providing good contrast with the shadows.
Above the bushes, I’ve added shadows and highlights to the red rocks that sit below the buttes. The now have a more three dimensional appearance.
And with that, I’ve completed the piece. The photo directly below shows the final painting.
There were times when I thought that I had taken on a bit too much with this painting. But with some effort I was able to make a passable, if somewhat stiff, water surface and reflection. It was a good learning experience.
That’s about it for now, I’ll see you next week when I will start an entirely new piece. As always, feel free to add photos of your own work in the comments section below.
Paint me a picture of your thoughts.
Of course art is a very personal thing, but I really like the water and reflections. It is as if you made the epemeral eternal. There is a juxtapostion between feeling very “surfacey” and feeling a sense of depth. At least that is the way it strikes me.
Thanks, Kahli. I’m still surprised that I could get the reflection to work. It really is the heart of this one.
one of the things l find especially interesting with this painting, as well as the last, at least to me, is your progression towards a more abstract presentation. what l find esp interesting is your use of a very limited palette.
well done!
lTMF’sA
Thanks, dada. I have used a very limited palette lately, going back to that painting of the 1959 Volvo. Honestly, I think that it all started with being too lazy to dig out my other colors but has now become a way to make things have an overall color consistency. FM would be proud of me.
I don`t think you are correct in your allusion to the slacker master. I have seen a progression that I appreciate as more of an artist`s discovering what he can do, versus what he can get by with, without doing.
The reflections work very well. I was studying this painting yesterday also. It`s strange that with a photographic image, I can usually see what I feel about it in three or four viewings that I might space inside an hour, but with a painting, I always have to let a day go by, before I think I see it properly.