Now that Halloween is over, I’m working on a landscape from PaintCoach’s Patreon site. This is in advance of his Paint Week (free!) that starts on November 6 (link to sign up is in his YouTube notes).
This one is on a 9×12 canvas, toned in Pale Umber, and sketched out in charcoal — rather than painted, because I’ve been watching the World Series, lol.
I completed the mountain valley abstract. The green grass in the front is not as de-saturated in real life as in the photo. I’m also including the source photo, as well as a black and white version for value comparison.
This is another exercise from PaintCoach Patreon’s page. The idea is that, if your solid shapes of values works, your painting will work once the detail is filled in. And it’s also to help beginners like me think in terms of shapes rather than things.
I used a raw umber and white tone on a 9×12 canvas, and sketched out in charcoal (a few days ago) — again, because I was also watching postseason baseball.
Joke’s on me. I posted the wrong “final” version earlier. This one, with the lights, is the final of “Winter Cabin”. For better or worse. Onward!
I have completed the Winter Cabin landscape.
As I indicated in an earlier post, I’m working on “Winter Cabin” in a follow-along from a PaintCoach post on Patreon.
I’m working on another lesson from PaintCoach’s Patreon pages. This one is called “Winter Cabin”. I’m using an 8×10 canvas, which I toned with Windsor & Newton Galeria’s Pale Umber. I sketched out the basic shapes with a Liquitex acrylic paint pen in Burnt Umber.
For better or worse, I’ve finished it!
After I completed today’s work, I realized that the center pumpkins were all in a line, and I decided I didn’t like that. Bad composition. (See left image.) So I removed one of the pumpkins, and I think it looks a bit more natural.
BetterLateThanNeverArt 