These trees are based off an image by Inna Sherman from Pixabay. I stuck with the primary palette (cad-free yellow medium, pyrrole red and ultramarine blue), black and white, but I also used a bit of yellow ochre, mainly for the grasses. I worked it on a 6×8 canvas panel.
Landscape
52 Mini Paintings Challenge: Week #3
This was week 3 for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. It’s based on a picture he took of a hazy morning with the grass full of dew, in an area near his home. It reminds me a lot of the English cottage landscape I did at Paint Coach Patreon.
This was done on a 6×6 canvas panel. I used the 3 primaries, plus black and white.
(Acrylic University) Acrylics 101: Mini Practice Paintings #3
This was the third of the 3 mini practice paintings where we the students copy some of Jed’s paintings. In the next round, we copy bigger paintings which are more challenging. Then we move on to more detailed studies of subjects like color mixing, perspective, design/composition, etc. (All with practice paintings of course!)
I had bought some black 8×8 canvases during the holiday season so I used one of those rather than tone a white canvas with Mars Black. Same difference — I just don’t like the black canvas. It skews my sense of color. Ugh. I just want to paint all over it to cover it up!
52 Mini Paintings Challenge: Week #2
This was week 2 for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. The focus was on the reflection of the trees and land in the lake.
I used an old Ampersand Gessobord panel which I re-gessoed numerous times to reduce the slickness. Unfortunately, that left brushstroke grooves, which are particularly obvious in the reflection of the trees.
52 Mini Paintings Challenge: Week #1
This was week 1 for Jed Dorsey’s Mini Painting Challenge at Acrylic University. It’s a follow-along, using Dorsey’s reference photos and seeing how he paints from the reference. All paintings are done in 6×6 size.
Lesson 1 was called “Sunlight through the Trees”, and Dorsey uses an impressionistic style for the painting, which I attempted to imitate.
Online Class “Terrific Trees” : Pine tree
Over Black Friday, I bought access to a handful of online classes at Kara Bullock Art. One was the “Terrific Trees” class by Kim VanDerHoek.
I ‘m working on painting pine trees, so I can make some Christmas cards on a Christmas tree theme. The tree on the left was painted on a 6×6 canvas panel, and is based on Kim’s class (a follow-along).
The tree on the right was painted on a 8×8 black stretched canvas. The shadow of the tree is unpainted; I’m just using the black of the canvas.
Paint Week Nov 2023 — Landscape
Paint Week 2023 is going on this week, and the subject to paint is a kayaker on a river lined by mangroves. Although I’m working on a portrait tutorial by the same teacher, I took some time out to paint the landscape on a 9×12 canvas.
The subject didn’t particularly excite me; that’s probably apparent in my results. I find the value map helpful as a concept, but painting-wise, the burnt sienna underpainting shows through too much, which I don’t like. Maybe if I were using oils it would work better?
Finished! New England Landscape
Finally had time to paint again after watching so much baseball — This is the finished work from the Patreon lesson.
(The photo of the completed painting was taken in a different room with only natural light coming in from southern windows; the other one was taken in my “studio” (dining room table) under the bright light of a work lamp.)
New England Landscape.. Continued
I’m continuing to work on this landscape. I painted over the first take of the yellow ochre to make it more golden, and I think the lighter green up front is too saturated/yellow, and I need to darken it.
What is left to do is the leaves on the tree, the flowers in the meadow, and the grassy definition of the path to the house.
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