Winter’s Return, 24×36, acrylic Winter has returned with a vengeance around here and as I struggle in the studio with new pieces, I tend to look back at some of my favourite paintings. I can get frustrated with what I am doing and ask myself, why do I keep trying? That is usually a good […]
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I thought it might be a good idea for those of you interested in using field colour to explain how I painted my charts. It is a valuable exercise, even if you use a more direct method of painting and don’t use a variety of colours in your underpaintings. In this post I will explain […]
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Before I go into my post for today… A note to my e-mail subscribers! Posts coming into your e-mail boxes are now abbreviated (as of January 18, 2008). It is an unfortunate side effect to changing it on my feeds. To see the full post click on the post title and it will take you […]
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Early in 2007, I took a course with contemporary realist painter Scott Owles. Scott is an affable guy with a great sense of humour and, what’s more, a fantastic teacher and artist. I had no practical training in fine art previous to this as my art education is in graphic design. Many of the principles […]
Continue ReadingPainting from Photographs – III
Here is the final painting from the photograph I have been working with: Winter at Muskoka Beach, 16×20 Colour is always an issue when painting from photographs. With this one, the challenges were in how to decide how much I should saturate the colours that were not in the blue field. I didn’t want the […]
Continue ReadingPainting from Photographs – II
So we have been out taking reference photographs….. One thing I forgot to mention is that your photographs need not only be of complete compositions. Your photos can be of particular skies, trees, water, a field, whatever, because the great thing about painting is that you can mix and match different photographs to make a […]
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