Skyscapes

52 Mini Paintings Challenge: Week #14

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This is the week 14 painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. It’s from a reference painting by an artist named Bruno; a large lone pine is silhouetted against an evening sky. Dorsey’s process involved painting the tree and foreground first, and then the sky. I did the opposite, painting the sky in its entirety, and then painting the tree and foreground in a chromatic black (burnt sienna & ultramarine blue).

The reference photo did not really speak to me; I think this is reflected in my painting. Oh, and I started with a 6×6 canvas panel I had already painted in a diarylide yellow.

52 Mini Paintings Challenge: Week #13

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This is the week 13 painting for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. I’m not certain where the reference photo was taken; it’s not one of Dorsey’s. The painting he did in the paint-along is called “Big Clouds” and he uses a magenta red underpainting. To be honest, his version of this painting is one of the reasons I signed up for this challenge. I’m not over-crazy about my own version; it’s just another study of clouds. I need more practice.

My First Nocturne

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I’ve had an 8×10 canvas lying around for months which I had toned with anthraquinone blue (PB60), and I had seen some nocturnes done by students in Acrylic University. So, inspired, I went through my own photos and found one I took in my backyard early in the Covid lockdown. It’s not the best reference, but it is certainly a nocturne!

I used dioxazine purple for the dark-shadowed house, and Liquitex Basics gray-blue with some black for the lighter wall. The sky is the anthraquinone blue, but also a mix of phthalo blue/ultramarine blue and white in varying shades around the moon.

More Clouds

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Since I’m on a cloud kick, I took some of my own photos of clouds, and am starting to paint some of them, focusing on keeping edges as soft as possible with acrylic paint. The blue sky is a mix of cerulean blue, ultramarine blue and some white. The trees were done in raw umber. 6×8 canvas panel.