Painting 1: day 3, blocking-in and scumbling
With the foreground and shadows roughly blocked in, my goal today is to begin on the lighter areas and the sky. This requires blocking in the darker areas of th...
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Painting 1: day 2, blocking-in shadows
The finished painting will have an extreme level of contrast between the light of the sky and the back-lit, silhouetted shadows of the foreground. It is importa...
Painting 1: day 1, the underpainting
I’ve decided to use a previous study as the compositional basis for the first painting of the series. The first stage of my painting process typically inv...
Studies and Recognizing Early Influences
Being on sabbatical and having the time to actually contemplate my own work, I can see the influence of some of my earliest artistic heroes and how their presen...