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Monday, December 1, 2014

River Drowse -1

An oil painting of a local river (8"x10"). This was from a photograph. Did grid it then put in a rough value map using raw umber.

Then tried to keep to the larger shapes.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Landscape 14 Study -After Andreas Achenbach Erftmühle

A bit of a fail on this one I feel. Started off trying out working with one brush. Did not last. This one suffered.

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Landscape Study 13 -Glacier

Glacier

Another landscape study. Looking at the big shapes.

Friday, November 14, 2014

Dogwalker

Messing with some photo bashing and then this happened. A bit of fun.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Doorstep

Tried to stay with the landscape theme but being experimental.

Friday, November 7, 2014

Landscape Study 12 -After Monsted -Glimpses of the Sun in Sæby Stream

After Monsted -Glimpses of the Sun in Sæby Stream

Biggest challenge when painting landscapes is handling green. A classic way of breaking up all the green is adding red accents. This is a symphony of red and green. Image I worked from was on Elsewhere but links back to Jose Rosarios website

Monday, November 3, 2014

Landscape Study 11 After Andreas Achenbach-Wildbach

After Andreas Achenbach-Wildbach

Some dramatic landscape. The image I studied from is Elsewhere. Had not seen any of this artists work before. A lot of moody work.

Friday, October 31, 2014

Guard with spear

Tried another character. It came from the same set of silhouettes as cricket guard. Not as successful I think - a bit generic.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Landscape study 10 After Shishkin - Small Oak Trees

Decided to do a few landscape studies. This work is by Shishkin. Did not spend a tun of time refining this as I just wanted to get the big shapes in and then work from there. There does not seem to be a lot of images of this online and the few that are there vary in hues. This was copied from an image on a website Elsewhere . This has a great collection of paintings of landscapes at good resolution and believable colours. The original is in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Someday.