Well...I have a 36"x 32" canvas sittin' round and I can't hardly allow my memories of my recent time spent in Alaska go by without taking advantage of them...
So...I have surrounded myself with my plein airs, near 14 of them...to reference color...seining boats...and I don't really know where this is going except for a gut feeling. I have also a photo reference to set up some ideas and elements..but this will be driven by memory and color references/reminders from the plein airs I did out there.
Here are my references on my classroom blackboard...
I placed a big piece of plexiglas across my front architect's drafting table to mix paint on...and have decided I would make up a pile of bluish-violet for my dominant color and attempt a split-complementary driven palette. To excite and cause color vibration I have opted to first lay down a turps underpainting of red-orangish and yellow-orange to cause complementary contrast building the bluish-violet...neutrals and so forth over the top.
here was my undertone palette...
and my underpainting in about 20 minutes completed and ready to begin-
Now I mix up my pile of bluish-violet, put out my yellow and my reddish-orange...plus white, and will mix all colors and neutrals from these...
I begin with a flat and paint vertical marks as pertains to values going back, and try to distribute a bit to develop a feel for the whole-
here you see more jumpin' around-
and a couple closeups to show the simplicity of the stated brushmarks-
and where it stands after the first session...about an hour and fifteen into this so far...
We'll see where this one goes I guess...
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