Hello again painting fans.
This week I will be with the painting of the Holbrook service station. The photo that I will be using is seen directly below. I will be using my usual acrylics on an 8×8 gallery-wrapped 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 got some limited painting time this past week as we returned from our yearly family vacation. (We were out west and fortunate to have been able to hike in the Grand Canyon.) I have sharpened the service station a bit. The footings now appear (with shadows) at the entrance and between the pillars. That area now has a more grounded appearance. Note that the band around the top of the building now appears in blue/green in the lit areas. This is the true color but may not show through in the original photo. Tot the right, the tree line has been straightened at ground level. It rose in the earlier version. Finally, the sign has been defined in shades of gray in preparation of things to come.
I’ll have more to show you next week. See you then.
Earlier paintings in this series can be seen here.
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I’ve been showing Madame your progress. I think she is impressed as well. She said that building looked a lot like so many that we have seen in that region over the years. We used to live near a number of ghost towns. If one had the interest and so on, one could create a number of paintings of scenes of the remains of once thriving towns.
It’s starting to look quite realistic now. I definitely can hardly wait for the next installment in this particular piece.
Thanks much, DD. Yep, there are many attractive ruins to be seen, and painted out there. I’ve got some photos of that kind of thing that I might try to paint.