Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 27, 2023

Poppies in the Mountains


5x4in. oil on canvas panel - not available

This spring I started to vend at craft fairs and my first-ever craft fair required a raffle item from each vendor. Since I am an artist, I figured a small painting would be perfect. Not exactly knowing what to paint, I turned to my resources. Indeed, this painting is composed from no single reference photo, instead, multiple references Frankensteined together to make my finished piece. The mountains in the background were inspired by Bob Ross' glorious mountainscapes, the midground a Patreon tutorial by Paint Coach focusing on atmospheric perspective and the foreground a photo of poppies from the Cascades National Park. I especially like how the poppies pop against the green grass, and how the grass reflects in the river. Practicing working on my own compositions is difficult but it rendered great results.

Sunday, October 16, 2022

Lost Home

 


8x6in. oil on Ampersand Gessobord - NFS

This is the second out of the four plein air paintings for the October challenge! This is my first attempt at dappled light and it's definitely tough. I had a lot of fun making this and the weather was so nice. I had a kind of tough time editing the color balance of this image to match the painting itself, my phone's camera leans heavily blue. I had a bit of a hard time painting the dappled light on the ground, but once I internalized that it's just color blocks against a darker background, I feel like I started to understand the subject better.

Mountain Study


8x6in. oil on Ampersand Gessobord - click to purchase here

This is another Paint Coach Patreon tutorial that I completed in order to study for this year's October Plein Air challenge! I highly recommend checking out his YouTube channel. One of the things that really drew me to complete this study were the juicy paint strokes. As I continue to work on my creative skill, I'm realizing that I'm really drawn to making thick, juicy brush strokes rather than blended colors. The brush strokes blend together from farther away but once you look up close, you can really see the nuance between colors.