Welcome back.
This week we will be continuing with the (West) Cape May, New Jersey Victorian house. The photo that I’m using is seen directly below.
I am doing this piece in my usual acrylics and, once again, in an 8×10 format on stretched canvas.
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 started painting in the body colors of the house in shades that will reflect the final appearance of the structure. As such, the shaded front of the house is painted blue, the lit side is in white.
The roof, in a transluscent layer of paint here, will be a gray color with shadows added later on. I have also added a similar layer of paint to the roof of the building to the extreme left and the roadway in front of the house.
This juncture does provide for a very interesting abstract image, almost like a photographic negative. (For those of us who can recall film cameras.)
The current state of the painting is seen in the photo directly below.
Before concluding, as requested, seen directly below is the previous painting placed in a frame.
That’s about it for now. I’ll see you next week with more progress. As always, feel free to add photos of your own work in the comments section below.
Paint me a picture of your thoughts.
Thanks for the framed painting. It looks ready to move into – I can imagine the owner dreaming of the gardening possibilities. I found an article about creating a Victorian garden following some of the “rules” Why so many rules?
Well, I’ll tell you. Another garden writer of the day – namely one Andrew Jackson Downing – felt we Americans were “bereft of tamed nature” and suffered from “that lowest species of idolatry. The love of money.” Gardening was thought to be a “morality lesson” which would root us and “cure the American’s drinking problem…”
There is a link to the Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May. Have you visited the estate?
As to the new house, as always I enjoy watching you proceed. Your comment on the similarity to a photo negative made me realize how you could paint this in different styles, leaving the original photo (and house) far behind. I hadn’t really considered that before. Thanks.
Hi tampopo and thanks!
I’m more of a haphazard gardener. I have been to the Physick estate a couple of times. Their admission prices now are rather high. It was about $25.00 for 3 of us, 2 adults and 1 child, for a brief tour of only the first floor of the mansion.
I’ve painted a bit more since this was prepared and actually wonder if I should have left this painting in its “rough” state. It has a strange appeal to me the way it looks above. I tend to get stuck in one style by the time it’s all said and done.
I don’t always get a chance to stop by here, due to my bad habit of working on Saturdays, but since I thanked supersoling for his auto art demonstration, I thought I should say thanks to you as well for yours! Please keep ’em coming, all you artists!
Boran2
It looks like it`s already starting to breath.
I think I mentioned quite a while back that some of your paintings have stages where “It`s done” could apply.
When I read your ideas on that, I wondered if you could start two canvases & paint the same subject but interpret it on different levels.
Even on different days.
Next I`ll be suggesting behind your back or standing on one leg.
Have you ever done that? (I mean painting two canvases with the same subject)
I’ve never tried that but maybe I’ll dot that in teh future. I have repainted the same subject at different times with interesting results.