Hello again painting fans.
This week we’ll be starting an entirely new painting.
The photo that I will be using is seen directly below.
I’ll be using my usual acrylics on an 8×10 canvas.
I took this photo on my trip out west this summer. It shows a trailhead going toward one of the buttes in Sedona, Arizona. I particulary like how the butte to the rear has distant faded colors.
I wanted to begin by painting an outline of the butte, the dominant element. Simple enough, but it had to be placed to allow the other elements appropriate space. I actually added marks on the canvas to properly orient things.
The current state of the painting is seen directly below.
Note the marks below that I used to place the butte. They divide the canvas roughly in quarters. I was less concerned about the north/south placement. Note further that I’ve actually already added a layer of paint to the sky. Of course this blue is only the first layer for all that will come.
That’s about it for now. Next week I’ll have more progress to show you. See you then. As always, feel free to add photos of your own work in the comments section below.
Earlier paintings in this series can be seen here.
Paint me a picture of your thoughts.
Hi Boran ~ looking forward to watching this painting progress.
On these below, I have mixed feelings. Continuing with a goofy family theme of portraying people as wealthy landowners or rulers, my oldest son did a portrait of his cousin, at my request.
I think it’s beautiful and well done, of course, but has an overall feeling of sadness to it that I wish was lighter. He was going by two photos because he hadn’t seen his cousin in years. The boy pictured has muscular dystrophy and is confined to a wheel chair. He’s 21 and boys with MD commonly don’t live past their early 20s, if that….so that is where I might be reading sadness into it that isn’t really there. My daughter is driving 600 miles to deliver this painting today, so we’ll see how it is received. (Keeping fingers crossed)
That’s an amazing painting. Your son is very talented. I hope that your relative takes it in the spirit that it was intended. And your daughter is very generous to make that long drive. You’ll have to let us know what happens.
Wow! I’d be really flattered to have a cousin do something like that for me. What a great and talented eye for whimsy!
The shape of the butte is uncannily similar to this mountain not far from where I grew up (no desert, though):
I can’t get to my own prints of it, so the image is taken from wikipedia.
That’s funny that the 2 buttes look so similar.
Buttes separated a birth perhaps? 😉