Tag: trees
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Camping Castles: #1
My friend Branden took a picture of Tyler and I playing Castles of Burgundy on the last day of our camping trip. I liked the photo quite a bit, and decided to paint it. First, I cropped the photo, and edited it to strengthen some of the shadows and contrast, and then made it black…
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Cows on a Hill: #1
I really liked the sky I painted last night, so today I wanted to paint something with a big wide open sky. I have also been enamored with Joseph Zbukvics cows, so I wanted to try that as well. To start, I used C4b to wet the paper. Then an F3w of UM Blue and…
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The Ravine: #9
Oh boy… I went for it and painted a full sheet. I have never painted something this big before, so I was a little curious to see how it would go. It turned out that I really, really enjoyed painting this large size. Its Fathers day today, so I wanted to paint my family. I…
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The Ravine: #8
I really tried on this one. This is painted on the back of another painting, so I knew starting out that it was just going to be an exercise, but I really wanted to treat it like a keeper. I think I have a good recipe now for the final painting, which Ill try on…
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The Ravine: #7
Im trying again to capture the memory of visiting the Ravine as a kid. There is something playful here which feels right. And I like that the tree back there is a defined focal point. One of the things I have struggled with is defining a focal point. As far as composition goes, this is…
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Church: #1
Every year for the past eleven or twelve years, some of my closest friends and I have gone on a camping trip for a long weekend. At first, there were a lot of us, and gradually life got in the way for a whole lot of us, but Babs, Sean, Branden and I still keep…
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Saturation Notation, Tree Technique, Atmosphere, and Perspective
There are two big things Im consistently disappointed in when I look at my landscapes: trees and atmosphere. Today, I set out to practice these. I grabbed some scrap paper (A.K.A. the back of a failed painting). I painted a very simple horizon and sky. The goal here was two-fold: practice painting atmosphere, and give…
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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…