I just turned this 8"x10" field sketch into a finished painting. There's a small works show coming up at The Copley Society and I needed something, uh, small. Normally, I save my field sketches as reference for a larger painting, but I tried tinting this canvas panel orange (as I’ve seen some other artists do). Well, IT WAS A DISASTER! I ended up making the sketch WAY too warm as the orange blazed through my thinner strokes. It was not going to be help in referencing the scene for me. So, I took another pass at it using my photos as refs and I’m calling it a finished small painting. Maybe I'll wait ’til summer and paint the small ref again, THEN do the larger version?
Saturday, February 11, 2012
New (small) Painting!
I just turned this 8"x10" field sketch into a finished painting. There's a small works show coming up at The Copley Society and I needed something, uh, small. Normally, I save my field sketches as reference for a larger painting, but I tried tinting this canvas panel orange (as I’ve seen some other artists do). Well, IT WAS A DISASTER! I ended up making the sketch WAY too warm as the orange blazed through my thinner strokes. It was not going to be help in referencing the scene for me. So, I took another pass at it using my photos as refs and I’m calling it a finished small painting. Maybe I'll wait ’til summer and paint the small ref again, THEN do the larger version?
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