Welcome back.
This week we will be an entirely new scene. I’m painting on a 10 x 10 canvas using my usual acrylics.
When we were last together I had completed the Sonoran desert scene and was intending to paint another one. At the last minute, I decided to do something different, slightly farther north in Sedona, Arizona. I will be using the photo seen directly below.
The scene is a famous one, used for a number of commercials and print ads. One day while there, we just missed the filming of a Japanese beer commercial. There is one other well known area of red rock and water, Lake Powell. However being man-made, it lacks the same kind of appeal. Additionally, in recent years it has been seriously diminished. Sedona’s scenery remains singularly spectacular.
I’ve started with the underpainting, dividing the areas into 3 large sections, the sky, land area and the creek. Each has its own color, selected for no particular reason.
The current state of the painting is seen in the photo directly below.
That’s about it for now. I’ll see you next week.
As always, feel free to post photos of your own work in the comment section below.
Paint me a picture of your thoughts.
You are up early! What a spectacular topic to paint.
In your under painting, it looks like there is some orange in the yellow and grey sections. Did you add that on top, or is the whole thing orange under the underpainting?
The silly thing is that I’m not really sure. I just kind of threw colors on the canvas that may have mixed in some places. It wasn’t particularly organized. 😉
Cool. I love serendipity.
Good morning,
it occurs to me that I was a tad harsh, or at least a sarcastic wiseass in my last comments to you with your last painting of the Seguaro cactus. My apologies :o) Especially since the end result of your work turned out so good. I honestly don’t see how you get from the beginning of a piece, when it often seems so…nondescript I guess, to a finished piece that, so far, you’ve always nailed. And it’s not like I don’t watch the process that you share with us. I just seem sometimes to miss some of the most important aspects of the metamorphisis that your images go through. Go figure! :oP
On another note,
hope you were able to get together with Manny in NY. Me, no such luck as I was completing a side job, a ’66 Cutlass convertible, at the same time he was here and couldn’t get away.
But you know, with some of you guys that I’ve met, or not yet met, I always feel optimistic that other chances will eventually roll around.
I keep my fingers (and braids) crossed though, just in case :o)
Peace
No problem, Superdude! You can never be too rich or too sarcastic. 😉
I didn’t get to see Manny. It was just too hard for me to to Greenwich Village from my area.