Welcome back.
This week we will be starting with a new painting. I’m not quite ready to leave the dark to light painting process of our prior subject. (I started with a dark brown background and added lighter elements as the process moved forward.) This one will also be a Victorian house in (West) Cape May, New Jersey. The photo that I’m using is seen directly below.
I am doing this piece in my usual acrylics and, once again, in an 8×10 format on stretched canvas.
As before, I have started with a dark brown background. In our last subject I found that it added a depth and complexity where it peeked through the paint placed over it. I was very pleased with the final result.
Over the brown I began the bones of the structure, careful to place the brushstrokes in a way that would provide overall balance. I’ve said it many times, those first strokes are important in terms of composition. Of course, they also provide a framework for the details to come.
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 with more progress, and some of those details. As always, feel free to add photos of your own work in the comments section below.
Paint me a picture of your thoughts.
From Tampopo’s suggestion months ago and your inspiration to post our own work I’ve decided to try my hand at a Palooza series. I started another flame job yesterday and took care to record each step on camera. Flame jobs can get boring but this particular one is a bit difficult because it has a positive and negative image, one atop the other, intertwined, that creates an interesting effect.
Maybe I’ll call it the Pfunky Painting Palooza…or something? Who knows.
I’m hoping to start posting it next week.
You might consider renaming your series the Prolific Painter’s Palooza :o)
I look forward to it!
Hey Super,
That sounds interesting.
I`m looking forward to see it also.
“Flame jobs can get boring…” – as I have no idea how to even begin a “flame job,” nor any knowledge of the paints and tools, I look forward to your series 😉
Hi Boran 2
Those are some pretty bold strokes.
It looks like timber faming.
I already like it.
I wonder how you got the lines so straight & of consistent width
I believe that it’s actually poorly-painted balloon framing. 😉 The lines do look straight and even in the photo, interesting that you noticed.
This is the pyramid roof I`m building presently.
It`s an outdoor pavilion with a BBQ, by waterfalls with anoth system running a Jacuzzi up in the rocks.
I have yet to start the fireplace, a free standing one with a 42″ flat-screen in the face of it.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3015/2708931569_fdc294d0f3.jpg
It’s blocked by my evil overlords here at work, I’ll have to check it when I get home.
B2 – I didn’t have an opportunity to comment at the conclusion of your last painting, but I did want to let you know how much I really liked it. At first I was a bit disconcerted when you added the car. I hadn’t even paid any attention to the car in the photo, so I was surprised to see one in your painting. I wasn’t sure I liked the addition as I had been imagining the house being newly built at some point in time, but nothing really dating it.
Knucklehead’s comment was a different perspective: The big surprise is just how much your addition of the old Nash, to the canvas, gives life & context to the house & the painting overall.
How did you come up with that. I can see a modern car in the photo, but it`s obvious in your interpretation of the canvas as a whole, & the car in particular, that it evokes a long ago memory of the familial center of life in those earlier days. It`s also surprising that while it was only less than 60 years ago, & that your painting easily brings back, “the good old days”, things seem so radically different now, making the painting an iconic one.
The more I looked at the painting with the car, the more comfortable I became with it. I was thinking that if I had just seen the completed painting, I probably wouldn’t have wondered about the car at all, going right into Knucklehead’s perspective. Thinking about 60 years ago, though I am not sure what the garden trends were at that time, I would guess the house would have had more plants and flowers in the yard.
Please post a photo of the last painting when you get it framed – that is also so interesting!
As to the new painting… it looks “strong” and “solid.” Looking forward to next week’s installment.
Thanks again for doing this series.
Thanks, tampopo. I hadn’t started out with the intent of making a scene of a simpler long ago time, but it dawned upon me about midway into the process. It also seemed to fit better with the color scheme, such as it is.
I’ll drop it in a frame that I have for next week.