Welcome back.
This week we will be continuing with the new painting that I started last week, the Victorian house in Las Vegas, New Mexico, seen in the photo directly below. As usual, I’ll be using acrylics. This one is large for me, the canvas is 11×14.
When last seen, the painting appeared as it does in the photo seen directly below.
Since that time, I have continued to work on the painting. Unfortunately the preparation of my income taxes kept me from doing as much as I would have liked.
I have concentrated my efforts on the ochre body color and details. The porch posts have begun to take form and the white gaps on the walls have been filled in. These changes are not final and will receive further work in the coming weeks.
The current appearance 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 add photos of your own work in the comments section below.
Paint me a picture of your thoughts.
I am finding it interesting how the words are affecting how I see this piece.
“Las Vegas” brings images to mind – then New Mexico which brings other images to mind – then Victorian brings a whole other set of images. None of them quite mesh, yet here is your photo of a Victorian in Las Vegas, NM.
I like how you have been able to maintain all the curves and angles. This seems a more challenging piece because of them. Is this more difficult?
Good morning, Tampopo! Those curves and angles do make the painting a bit more rigid. I’m always aware of maintaining the structure and there is less freedom to let things just happen.
I have always found angles rather frustrating to draw. There are all the relationships of lines that meet in corners yet need to maintain their relationship to the lines around them – ack!
I wanted to ask you why you used an orange for the first layer, particularly for the sky? Why not blue?
Supposedly, painting the underlayer in a different color gives a quality of depth. It can also give an overall consistency of color, if other parts of the painting share the same color. I haven’t done underpainting until recently so I’m still exploring it.