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

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.

Guard with spear

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. 

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.

Ship wrecked

Ship wrecked

Trying some more enviornment stuff.  Put in some birds so I feel there is much progress here. 

Cricket guard

Cricket guard

I did a set of silhouettes just to try some stuff.  I did these fast and loose.  This character was based off one. worked in grey scale first then dropped in colour then worked on some details.  Other than the rendering it went quite quickly. 

Reflection Study 2

Did this study just after the previous reflection study.  I did these studies to help with another image but I got distracted and only remembered that I still had to go back and apply some this learning a few weeks later.