Category: Trees
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Facebook: #2
I used packing tape as a frisket on this version. I was surprised by how well it worked, but cutting through one layer of tape without cutting the paper beneath is hard. The trick seems to be a sharp blade (super sharp) and take it slow. I started with the sky. I wasnt happy with…
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Facebook: #1
For this painting I wanted to practice lighting planes on a geometrical shape and working with perspective and atmosphere. I havent been happy with how my shapes have been defined in terms of their lit/shadowed sides lately, and I thought working with big angular shapes on manmade surfaces would help me learn more about light and…
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Rolloff Trees: #2
This is the second attempt at the photo Rick sent. I knew I wanted to be careful about getting too dark too quickly, I was going to have to plan on a number of glazes for this to work. As I glazed, I realized that having used non- staining pigment (Bloodstone Genuine) on the second…
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Rolloff Trees: #1
My friend Rick asked me to paint a picture for his parents anniversary. The photo he sent was really interesting because of the depth of textures, the snarled trunks and the feathery leaves and sharp dried palm leaves. I wanted to try to communicate those textures, and the light coming from almost behind the leaning…
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Study – Rocks & Trees: #1
I think I learned more tonight doing these little studies than I have in a long time. First, I wanted to test blooms. I found that I need the pigment to be much more dry than I previously thought to get the effect Im after with blooms. I want the pigment to lift from the…
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Bonsai: #3
This one turned out more of an illustration than a painting – maybe somewhere in between? I wanted to try the Bonsai painting in a landscape orientation, and I think it worked ok. I dont like the trees in the midground, I wanted them to be more washed out than they are, but I ended…
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Bonsai: #2
I decided to try this painting again, hoping the cat wouldnt walk on it this time. I tried a lot of wet in wet, hoping to get some dynamic movement from the pigment settling and blending in the water. I like how it came out for the most part. If anything this is a really…
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Walborn: #1
I was going stir crazy with a bit of cabin fever, so I decided to go out and do some plein air painting today. It was cold, but not all that bad. I drove around for a while wanting to stop and ask permission to paint someones barn, but I couldnt work up the gumption,…
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Bonsai: #1
I admit, I pretty much gave up on this when the cat walked across it. But there are a number of things I like here: 1) I like the way the wash wandered. I finally opened up a bit and decided to let the water move the pigment in a number of places. Maybe I…
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The Ravine: #2
Hork! Hnnnnnnorrrrrgchhh! Bleargh. Wow, this didnt work at all. I started by really trying to focus on creating planes in the image to capture light coming from different angles. I managed to define those planes – and then some. My sketch was very angular because I wanted to set a scaffold for my painting so…
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The Ravine: #1
When I was a kid, I spent countless days with my Brothers and Sister playing in a ravine down in the woods. Some of my favorite times as a kid were spent down there trying to catch snakes in a sock, or building dams to try to make a swimming pool (which never worked). I…
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Sikma Road: #2
I tried to really focus on the light shining through the trees on this one. I think I did a good job of blurring the light in the trees in the distance and preserving enough white at that light source. I think that brightness, plus the blurred edges where the leaves hit the light, together…
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