Category: Sky
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Nimisila C-6: #12
This is my attempt to paint this scene from Dock C-6 at Nimisila Reservoir. If you are curious about my previous attempts… Attempts 1-4 are here. Attempts 5-7 are here. Attempts 8-9 are here. Attempts 10-11 are here. Number 12: OMG… I think Im getting close. So I decided to try to follow the recipe…
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Nimisila C-6: #10-11
Dang. These are hard. Number 10: I didnt bother to go back in and paint the flowers on this one because I knew it wasnt going to be a finished version. I like the way the water is rendered in this one, but like all the others, the lily pads here are quite dark. I…
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Nimisilla C-6: #8-9
I decided to try the painting of the lillies at the C-6 boat ramp at Nimisila Reservoir again today. If you want to see the evolution of this one, the first four paintings are discussed here, and paintings 5-7 are here. Nimisila C-6: #8… Yuck For this painting I wanted to try to focus on…
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Caldwell Hillside: #1
I havent painted in a while, in large part because I havent felt inspired by the ideas in my head. There is a photo I have had in my recent photos that Ive wanted to paint. The photo wasnt great in terms of composition, but the memory of the scene was very strong. I remember…
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Cloudy Sky: #4
I decided to try that painting again. I was going to try some exercises with back runs, and water, but before I knew it I was painting. So… here it is. There are some things that I really like here, and some things I definitely want to do differently. But, I think Im done with…
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Cloudy Sky: #3
I think I might need to rename this painting. Now at the third iteration, I think its more about the rocks and vegetation than it is about the sky. At any rate, I have volunteered to work part-time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its a very strange time in the world right now, and I dont…
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Cloudy Sky: #2
Today I tried painting that barn thats in my memory again. There are some things that worked better here than in the first one, and some that didnt work out. I feel better prepared now for number 3. Here is the sketch I made before painting this one. I really tried to increase the visual…
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Cloudy Sky: #1
On my drive last week to Lutz Lock, where I failed at painting the old lock from the Erie Canal, I saw a barn on the side of the road that I remember thinking looked like a nice one to paint. I didnt stop though, and only have the scene and in my memory. Today,…
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Its all part of the journey
in Achitecture, Animal, Failed Paintings, Figure, Landscape, Sky, Studies, Trees, Water Color, Year 2I have to remind myself over and over… you are only a year and a half into this. Im a sophomore in high school… I should expect to paint like Im sixteen. I have been running into a slew Of failed painting again. Im not sure why exactly. For some reason Im no where near…
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Lowery Lake Exercise: #2
I painted a lake cottage from Arnold Lowrys book today. I think painting from a book is a good idea for beginners like me because you get to compare what you did to what a professional artist has done. You can do the same thing by trying to create a forgery of another artists work,…
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Glitter War: Final
I bit the bullet and just went for it today, and painted that Glitter War painting my brother asked for a while ago. He lives in North Carolina, and they are in town for Christmas, so I figured if I paint it now, I can save myself from having to mail it. This painting has…
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Fall: #2
Before I start, I should say thank you to Liron Yankonsky for a Video he posted on YouTube recently. The study he did helped me a lot. I really focused on clean washes, and simple composition as a result of watching that video. I decided to paint another autumn tree today. This time I wanted…
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Feeling Stuck
I started doing this because I saw a video of a master penman who was working on a piece, and he said something like: People always say how talented I am. They see me write something with one stroke in a few seconds. But what they dont see are the years of practice, the mountains…
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Salt Fork: #1
I drove out to Do some Plein Air Painting today. A while back I drove home from camping along Route 21, north of Salt Fork State Park. On the drive, I passed a Mutti Dairy Farm, and I took note of it as something to paint some day. So, when I decided to go painting…
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Nimisilla Sunset: #4
I will do a write up on this later. I painted this last night, and I like it. Im proud of myself for not going longer than I should have and creating mud on the left.
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Nimisilla Sunset Recipe
I think a good idea is to think of a painting in terms of a recipe. You need to add the right ingredients at the right time with the right motions in order to get the right end result. With that in mind, I took the lessons I learned from my practice sessions, and tried…
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Nimisilla Sunset Practice
I played with the Nimisilla painting a lot today. I took a bunch of failed paintings, and quartered them on the back with masking tape. In each quadrant I tried a study of the painting to solve the problems as Rick Surowicz puts it. But you cant solve problems until you identify them. Here are…
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Nimisilla Sunset: #2
This is a pre-test for a painting I want to do of a scene in my memory from last week when I went fishing with my friend Babs. Babs and I have been good friends for over 20 years now. Thats a weird thing for me to say because in my mind, Im not much…
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Mites, mud, and a microscope.
I spent a glorious day yesterday outside with my dog Lego. We fished in my inflatable boat. We walked through the woods. She sat while I painted a church. We drove for an hour and a half through Amish country to my favorite camping grounds. And, she lolloped through tall grass as we climbed a…
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Sunset Road: 1 & 2
I realized that Im stuck in a bit of a rut as far as my paintings go. I think part of the reason Im stuck here is because Im trying to do too much, and Im listening very closely to my inner critic. In my mind, as I paint, there are a slew of teachers…