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Waiting for paint to dry
Below are the final version of Sky Pads 34 and the one immediately preceding it. I actually finished it several days ago, but the last tweak I made to it was a pour of very wet but very transparent paint. … Continue reading
Posted in art, landscape, light, oil paintings, painting techniques, Poured paint, Sky Pads
Tagged art, artist challenges, landscape, oil painting, oil paintings, Poured paint, Sky Pads
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Local light–Wellfield Gardens
The night before the night before Christmas the SO and I got tickets for the Christmas festival of lights at Wellfield Botanical Gardens in Elkhart, Indiana. Since our house is less than 20 miles away it was super easy to … Continue reading
Posted in light, Wellfield Botanic Gardens
Tagged Christmas lights, Wellfield Botanical Gardens
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Sky Pads 33 part 2
You can see now that the general scheme here is a progression of the leaves on a diagonal from bottom right to upper left. This wasn’t obvious in my last post unless you enjoy squinting at faint drawing lines to … Continue reading
Posted in art, drawing, landscape, light, oil paintings, painting techniques, Poured paint, Sky Pads
Tagged art, drawing, landscape, oil painting, Sky Pads
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G–O–A–L-L-L!!!
Below is the previous version for comparison. I guess your preference would be determined by your appreciation of floating versus more grounded. In the previous version everything was more or less untied from any kind of anchor. In the final … Continue reading
Posted in art, landscape, light, oil paintings, painting techniques, Sky Pads
Tagged art, landscape, oil painting, Sky Pads, water lilies
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What’s your favorite light flavor?
Okay, so I wasn’t totally happy with the color scheme of Sky Pads 31, but I didn’t want to paint over it. So I didn’t. The photo in the original post was taken in a “daylight” setting, which brightened everything … Continue reading
Posted in art, landscape, light, oil paintings, photography challenges, Sky Pads
Tagged art, artist challenges, landscape, oil painting, Sky Pads, water lilies
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Running a bit late
It was my intention to have this one finished by December 1. I got all the pesky leaves done but the background was only a suggestion and as such it needs a lot of adjustment. The bright areas on the … Continue reading
Posted in art, landscape, light, oil paintings, painting techniques, Poured paint, Sky Pads
Tagged art, landscape, oil painting, Sky Pads, water lilies
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A two-fer
Just because I wussed out on Sky Pads for a couple of months (or more) doesn’t mean I wasn’t thinking about them. I already had the background washes done in early September so it wasn’t a stretch to get the … Continue reading
Posted in art, landscape, light, oil paintings, painting techniques, Poured paint, Sky Pads
Tagged art, landscape, oil painting, Sky Pads, water lilies
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Looking great in light or darkness
Unlike the first two photos of this painting in a previous post (the background and the beginning of the pad formations) this one is a bit brighter. It is really close to what the painting looks like in … Continue reading
Posted in art, landscape, light, oil paintings, Poured paint, Sky Pads
Tagged art, landscape, oil painting, Sky Pads, water lilies
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It got dark all of a sudden
If you were in love with the poured paint initial version of this piece– I guess this latest version could be somewhat of a shocker. I’m sure it will be hard to convince you that the three coats of paint … Continue reading
Posted in art, landscape, light, oil paintings, painting techniques, Poured paint, Sky Pads
Tagged art, landscape, oil painting, Sky Pads, water lilies
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Short dive into the pond
Footnote: how annoying it is to see the background change (it hasn’t, by the way) depending on time of day and quality of light in the very same space each photo was taken. The middle photo is probably closest to … Continue reading
Posted in art, landscape, light, oil paintings, painting techniques, Poured paint, Sky Pads
Tagged art, landscape, oil painting, Sky Pads
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