Welcome back.
This week we’ll be continuing with our 5×7 painting of Arizona’s Grand Canyon. The photo of our subject is seen in the photo directly below. (For those new to this series, I will be using my usual acrylics.)
When last seen, the painting appeared as it does in the photo directly below.
Since that time I have continued to work on the painting. I have concentrated all my efforts on the sky, particularly the clouds. I wanted to have the sky a somewhat darker shade in keeping with the photo, but still light enough to provide a suitable background for the clouds. After some fiddling with the amount of white I was adding to the blue, I arrived with the at balance seen in the photo directly below. As usual, the photo reflects the current state of the painting. The cloud are done in a simple fashion, mostly white highlights and the blue as it came from the tube.
That’s about it for now, see you next week.
Many thanks to Olivia for featuring this week’s progress.
Paint me a picture of your thoughts.
Good morning, Mr. B2,
I like your darkening of the bottoms of the clouds. It’s a rflection of the multitude of colors and shadows that are the tops of the canyon itself. I saw the canyon once when I was a boy and that’s how i remember it. Two layers, one looking up, and one looking down, that met somewhere in the middle and melted together :o) You portray that effect really well :o)
I have a question, since you’ve asked for pictures of thoughts to be painted in the comments. Would you mind if I posted one picture of the boat I’m currently working on, in a comment?
Peace
Hay Super, I have been there a number of times and I know exactly what you mean. Post ’em if you’ve got ’em, I’d love to see the boat.
but better late than never. Or so they say :o)
Thanks for letting me post it here, B.
Cool! I’m still thinkin’ about the hood of my Mazda. It’s like a bare canvas. š
I expect the Anastasi anytime now….
I thought it was Anasazi, but I could be wrong. In any event, I think their descendents are in the process of retaking the continent as we speak :o)
The people were the Anasazi.
The Anastasi were their secret police death squads.
(I’ve either had too much coffee or not enough rum.)
Combining coffee and rum just begs to be called a Rumee…because after a wee bit too much Rumee you could start acting like our dear old Rumy-feld.
Actually when done right we called it Cafe’ Fernando after my college roommate, who brought the good rum from family visits home to Nicaragua…
One mug strong coffee
one or two shots GOOD dark rum (cheap is better than nothing if it’s all you got but the resulting product is inferior)
1 tbsp brown sugar (cane sugar will do, none of the white stuff)
top with whipped cream, and shaved dark chocolate.
Use a cinnamon stick to stir.