Welcome back.
This week we will be continuing with our scene from the Sonoran desert area. This is an 8×10 canvas using my usual acrylics.
The subject photo is seen directly below.
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 given the canvas a solid layer of paint covering the thin wash of color. The ground now appears in a red color, the sky a pale blue. The cacti are now a solid medium blue color. This stage of the painting is seen in the photo directly below.
But not satisfied with this progress, I was anxious to see those 2 long shadows. In adding them, I was actually painting things a bit out of order, but I needed some immediate gratification. It appears in the photo directly below.
Next week I’ll have some details.
That’s about it for now. I’ll see you next week. As always, feel free to add photos of your own work in the comments section below.
Paint me a picture of your thoughts.
I love what those shadows do to the composition. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Kahli!
Your painting is too abstract. But i love that photo.
Come back next week for some big changes.
Neat shadows – not only the cacti but the small bushes closer to the ground.
Hey Boran2,
The shadows change the, painting in progress, from the second to the third dimension.
I hope you can post an image of this one, after you add the shadows to the cacti in view, before you do anymore.
I believe that a finished piece of art does not have to be one that is the end result of an accumulation of “stand alone” pieces.
In other words, I think that when you add the shadows to the cacti, & nothing else more, you have a beautiful canvas, regardless if your painting is not completed. What do you think of that?
Do you concur?
It does have a nice simplicity about it as it is. I could stop here and call it done. Interesting.
Boran2
That`s exactly what I mean, but only after you include the shadows of the cactus in view, as you already provided the light that casts a shadow from the cactus that`s out of frame. It does not mean that you are done with YOUR painting, but that, that at that point, it could definitely be a finished piece in my opinion. I think it`s very nice, & I would not call it abstract at all.
That`s why I asked if you would at least provide a shot of it at that point.
Have you tried putting up, let`s say three, equal size canvases, & paint your subject on them with variations on the theme.
Like studies in techniques or even tools. One could be impressionistic with palette knife etc. etc.
A churning mind sometimes produces cream. (I don`t know why I just made that phrase up).