"Foreboding November Skies"-20x24

[Marc Hanson]

Photo is a little soft and slightly warm.
"Foreboding November Skies"- oil/canvas, 20x24
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/06-Dec-2005/37743-Foreboding-November-Skies.jpg

Closeup-
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/06-Dec-2005/37743-Fore-detail.jpg

This is the field study- 9x12
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/06-Dec-2005/37743-ForebodingNS.jpg

[grainne]

Wow, I could walk into this painting and back through it for miles under those overhanging clouds! I marvel at your work! :clap: :clap: :clap:

Grainne

[JanB]

WOW super work developing the clouds and the distance !!

[mnpainter]

Cant say enough Marc, other than ah cant do it:>)


Dammit, ok WOW!!!!!

Ben

[Bill Wray]

sweet and lonley...

[watmough]

wow!!!!!!!!
A studio painting thats BETTER than the sketch!
If you have any tips on this process...i would owe you forever...:)

[Marc Hanson]

Wow, I could walk into this painting and back through it for miles under those overhanging clouds! I marvel at your work! :clap: :clap: :clap:

Grainne
You might get snowed on Grainne, but I'm glad it feels that way to you. Thanks for the clappers.

[Marc Hanson]

WOW super work developing the clouds and the distance !!

I'm glad it looks 'spacious', it was a fun one to paint. Thanks.

[Marc Hanson]

Cant say enough Marc, other than ah cant do it:>)


Dammit, ok WOW!!!!!

Ben
THANKS Ben. Can't do what?...I know you can paint...just "get'er done".:D

[Marc Hanson]

sweet and lonley...
Thanks Bill.

[Marc Hanson]

wow!!!!!!!!
A studio painting thats BETTER than the sketch!
If you have any tips on this process...i would owe you forever...:)
Joe, thank you. I hope that's the case, though there are still things in the sketch that are more immediate that I like better.
Tips...I'm thinking....I'm not sure I can nail it down though. One thing that comes to mind when one of these does work out is in those paintings I started with a very firm Concept in mind and a very emotional attachment to making the image. From boxes of field studies, only a few really say "paint me". Many of the others are entities unto themselves and in them I don't see the advantage to making them larger and more than they are.
OK, Concept and Excitement (about painting the larger version) are first and foremost. Shoving the paint around is just the technical side but can be helped by (I'm sure you do some of this in your work) preliminary value studies or color comps if needed, and by pre-mixing piles of color. That's what I did in the sky on this one. Mixed about 5 or six different piles of color that I thought would make the clouds, then altered those as I worked.

Did I mention being excited about the Concept?:D

[midcoast]

Wow, I really like the studio piece! Those clouds really draw me in. It looks as though they are slightly warm in temperature...? I'm learning from you as I look at this...I can see where warming up the clouds just a tad makes them look more real. I have a tendency to make my clouds too cool in temp...while the values are fine, something still doesn't look "quite right." I think now I know what I need to do differently!

Thank you :) This is a gorgeous painting!

Nancy

[Marc Hanson]

Wow, I really like the studio piece! Those clouds really draw me in. It looks as though they are slightly warm in temperature...? I'm learning from you as I look at this...I can see where warming up the clouds just a tad makes them look more real. I have a tendency to make my clouds too cool in temp...while the values are fine, something still doesn't look "quite right." I think now I know what I need to do differently!

Thank you :) This is a gorgeous painting!

Nancy
Thanks Nancy. Clouds that are too cool don't have any life to them IMO. There are times though when the lights are so close to a out of the tube white that any added color ruins them. Those days are usually dark and more in the middle of the day. So all depends.

By "slightly warm" I meant that I couldn't lighten the photo enough in Photoshop without ruining the middle and dark values in the shadows of the clouds. Same with color. So I sacrificed color for the other values in the painting.

Then I went upstairs on a different computer and they look closer to real life than down here! So depends on the monitor I guess.

But as I see them in the actual painting, the lights in the clouds are just slightly warmed with a little yellow and red...just off white. On this monitor they look almost like Naples yellow and they aren't.

[mnpainter]

I meant that I cant come up with anything other than WOW!!!! The sky is the best I have even seen on screen. I can honestly say this os one the my favortie works by you Marc. Not that they all arent!!! But this one brings me to a place that I want to walk into and look up. with or without my LC smith duelly barrel. the addition of the fence post right center closes to us gives a great!!!!!!!!!!! sense of depth you are too damn good at. I am interested to see you gray layout in working the sky. Do you always start darkest and coolest gray first then to highlights and then fill in with middle tones? Thanks for sharing this one.

Ben

[Marc Hanson]

I am interested to see you gray layout in working the sky. Do you always start darkest and coolest gray first then to highlights and then fill in with middle tones? Thanks for sharing this one.

Ben
Hey Ben, thanks for all the nice things said.
I approach the clouds by first laying out the undersides, usually the darks in them right? Then lightly paint the large masses of the individual cloud shapes in the value that is the darker midtone, followed by the next lighter midtone until reaching the lighter values.
As I mentioned here, for something like this I mix up piles once I'm ready to start in on the clouds. Just don't want to get half way through a large cloud and run out of the color.

[JamieWG]

Geez, Marc, I can't keep up with you. Every time I look you have another beauty for us. I love the way you warmed up the sky on the studio piece and developed the foreground a little. I hope this finds a happy home, cause it sure belongs on somebody's special wall.

Jamie

[Marc Hanson]

Geez, Marc, I can't keep up with you. Every time I look you have another beauty for us. I love the way you warmed up the sky on the studio piece and developed the foreground a little. I hope this finds a happy home, cause it sure belongs on somebody's special wall.

Jamie
Thanks Jamie. We'll see.:)

[coh]

Very nice sense of distance in the landscape. And I like the hints of falling
snow ("virga") in the sky. Nice observation.

[ajcastro]

excelente! soberbio! maravilloso como manejaste el clima y el ambiente!

[Bill Wray]

I saved the images so this they must be good.;)