My goal is to try and finish some of the work I have dropped in the, not finished never going to get there basket, I really have many pieces that are neither here nor there, so today I am giving it a go. This piece I started last summer at the pond area below Sky Meadows and I left it in July with no center of interest and very little concept attached to the painting. My Friend and student Mike Flynn, worked on his interpretation of the image in a class on Monday and resolved his painting in a fine way which inspired me to pull out the canvas and finish it, thanks Mike. I repainted the entire painting by starting off with a thin layer of Liquin and painted back into it, get the darks squared away and pushing the distant trees back with violet and less detail. I then enlarged the foreground and put in a large piece of Terra Rosa and Cad Orange tilting the shape into the painting which creates a nice complementary contrast to all of the cool greens. Now I feel like the painting says something and has movement into and up the hillside.
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Steve, the painting you’ve got seems fantastic. I don’t know how it was before you had unfinished. I ask you what would you have done if instead of an oil painting it had been a watercolor picture. I have some of those old dogs in watercolor in my studio and I’m thinking about how to take them forward. Thanks for share. Respectfully, Mercedes
Great finish! I am now anxious to find the way to “fix” some of mine from this year. Thanks for the tips and lessons.
Today, in class, my brain is
starting to connect the dots – brush work and blending – truly make a difference.
Yeppers Mike that is true, and you are really making good progress. I am stunned by how much of a difference just controlling the paint on the edges makes to the process. Have a Merry Christmas. Classes again in Late JAnuary.