So…..I finished the Muskegon beach house by darkening the sky and the roof and adding detail and shadowing to the rest. I also reworked the rock field in front and the trees in the back. I like the feel of it.
Here’s the sequence for the Italian Abby painting.
1. Just free painted the basic structure and colors.
3. I put in the darker places and shapes to give it shape and depth.
4. I reworked the relationship between light and dark and cleaned up the plant life.
Many liked the first version best and, maybe as an abstract painting, I agree and felt that way myself but the Abby comes through better in the last.
The last on Yupo is a bouquet and tomatoes in a berry bowl on a really busy tablecloth. I did the tablecloth first and cut out the vase and bowl. Here it is without the cutouts.
After I painted the vase and bowl, I waited for them to dry, I started cutting out the leaves of the flower and added a little color to distinguish them and help me place the flowers .
I like the line and wash on the beach house. Also, it's interesting to see the progression of the abbey painting. I like the earlier stages, but I don't think you went too far. The tablecloth almost reads as a halo around the still life. It'll be fun to see where you go from here.
ReplyDeleteProbably just me but I would like a paler sky in the first two. I like the series of stages on the abbey. The process looks like sculpture, starting out with a big rock and chipping details into it. Is that a Cezanne tilted perspective on the still life? Love it. I would fill in the leaves in an abstract way so all to blend with that outer layer of blue things on the table cloth.
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