Hello again painting fans.
This week I will be continuing with the painting of the Second Empire Victorian. I am using the photo seen directly below. I’ll be using my usual acrylic paints on a 6×6 inch canvas.
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.
For this week’s cycle, I’ve painted the various elements of the house in colors that will carry through to the final result. To the left, the lit brick portions are now seen in a lovely shade of brown. Between them, the two story bay window is seen in a pale yellow, a shade also seen on the lit edge of the front porch. The roof’s lit portions are a lighter brown. The remaining sections, all in shadow, are blue. You can now see where I’m going with this one. It is a perfect road map. There is much more yet to come.
The current state of the painting is seen in the photo directly below.
I’ll have more progress to show you next week. See you then.
Earlier paintings in this series can be seen here.
The cafe is open.
Do you plan on adding any happy trees in the background? I know…not another Bob Ross reference. I will say that I find Bob Ross to be a bit of a tonic to a rather chaotic week both nationally and internationally. But yeah, I think I have an idea now of how this painting should progress. Looking forward to see the progress between this week’s and next week’s updates.
My trees will show little in the way of emotion, at least until President Trump takes office.
I almost managed to completely escape Donald Trump’s nomination speech. Can thank one of the younger members of my family for that – chasing Pokemon. Unfortunately, the phone lost its charge and sitting around in a car and waiting for the phone to charge enough was not much of an option. Came home and was told by my other half that if she was going to sit through that monstrosity so was I. And so we did…together. Too much fear and loathing for my tastes. I swear that the rise of the Chancellor of England in “V for Vendetta” reminds me too much of the rise of Trump (so far) for my comfort.
No Trump/Pence speeches for Mrs. ID and I – no network TV for many years. I prefer the comments on the web instead. Besides, we’ve had to endure way too much of Pence around these parts in recent years. I must admit, I’m grateful to Trump for getting him out of our hair, at least.
The heat dome has reached us, the temp is somewhere over 90 this afternoon and the humidity is brutal, so my outdoor activity will be at a minimum for the next few days. Very glad I’m no longer an active firefighter in weather like this!
It is just plain hot as hell here. I dont envy the firefighters.
It’s been hotter than billy hell for us much of the summer so far. Not expecting much in the way of relief until sometime in September. Am glad we did some reinsulation to the home when we did.
Back to viewing your current painting. It seems a needed form of maintaining sanity. Comments on most threads – here and elsewhere on the internet tubes – are brutal at the moment. It may be too much to ask for things to settle down after the convention is done, but one can hope.
I very nearly got pulled into the “Democrats don’t have no flags at their convention” thing on social media yesterday, but thought better of it and went on to more important tasks instead. I don’t believe I’d have changed any minds there, but the opportunity for mockery is just so tempting.