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January 6, 2020 at 9:24 am #482300
Here’s my third painting on the series depicting a tiny island near our house. I had two days of full sunlight but ended up doing the final touches from photos anyway.
Not super thrilled with this one. I think that I saved the painting from what was near a complete disaster on day two.I’m happy about trying to paint mostly with a bigger brush. But I still feel like I might not have compressed my values enough, and that I maybe should have dirtied down the blue in the sea toward the bottom of the canvas. Also couldn’t get any really nice marks in the brushwork when painting the trees on the islet. Maybe I’ll go over that again when it’s dried.
C&C welcome.
Oil on panel. 10*14.
January 6, 2020 at 10:31 am #929487I like the way you have handled the water with vertical brushstrokes and larger ones in the foreground. I cannot quite make out what is on the island…is it a house?
Everything else being equal, I would rather be in the painting zone.
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January 6, 2020 at 11:48 am #929484Like the handling of the paint in almost every regard. Your treatment of distance is spot on. I like how you warmed the color on the islet as it makes it come forward and acts as a focal point.
Randy
January 6, 2020 at 11:48 am #929494I like the way you have handled the water with vertical brushstrokes and larger ones in the foreground. I cannot quite make out what is on the island…is it a house?
Thank you. The vertical brushstrokes were a solution to my first (and second) failure with the sea. Yes, there is a tiny red cottage with white borders on the island.
January 6, 2020 at 2:18 pm #929485Beautiful, very painterly the way you use your paint brush, your work is full of life and the colours so natural.
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Winston Churchill.January 6, 2020 at 4:24 pm #929493Well done ….I really like the composition with the flow of the landmass taking us into the piece itself.
Nice depth as well and I like the garnered light effects off the trees throughout.January 7, 2020 at 10:26 am #929495Well done ….I really like the composition with the flow of the landmass taking us into the piece itself.
Nice depth as well and I like the garnered light effects off the trees throughout.Thank you Reddyman! I’m glad you like it.
January 9, 2020 at 11:47 am #929490You did well with mixing the paint everywhere. It does have a good balance to the whole composition. Everything looks well put together. However, the islands on the left and bottom right don’t really specify what’s on there. What’s going on in those islands? Try to add smaller brush strokes to add more detail or texture or contrast on those islands to have at least a slight indication of what’s going on.
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqEv5hirGVHCBsOT_zfVvoA?view_as=publicJanuary 9, 2020 at 6:51 pm #929488Love the brushstrokes and color in this painting! Very entertaining for the viewer. Agree with you that the island is good but could use something to refine it and make it stand out just a little bit more.
Wes
January 12, 2020 at 3:02 pm #929496Like the handling of the paint in almost every regard. Your treatment of distance is spot on. I like how you warmed the color on the islet as it makes it come forward and acts as a focal point.
Randy
Thank you Randy, you are very kind!
PaulJanuary 12, 2020 at 3:04 pm #929497Love the brushstrokes and color in this painting! Very entertaining for the viewer. Agree with you that the island is good but could use something to refine it and make it stand out just a little bit more.
Thank you Ohiohawk! I haven’t yet but might well try to see if I can spice up the little island.
Paul
January 12, 2020 at 3:06 pm #929498You did well with mixing the paint everywhere. It does have a good balance to the whole composition. Everything looks well put together. However, the islands on the left and bottom right don’t really specify what’s on there. What’s going on in those islands? Try to add smaller brush strokes to add more detail or texture or contrast on those islands to have at least a slight indication of what’s going on.
Thanks DreyDay!
January 12, 2020 at 3:40 pm #929489Very nice capture of light and atmosphere
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February 25, 2020 at 9:57 am #929499I reworked the sea at the bottom of the painting. The vertical brush strokes didn’t really work, and the color was too blue. Whaddyathink?
February 25, 2020 at 12:47 pm #929491Something to watchout for is happening in the redo. There is some checkerboarding going on. The waves in the water form too similar patterns at too similar intervals. Part of the trouble is that you have handled distance well in the rest of the painting, but the water waves as they recede are just as white as the ones up close.
Sorry to say, but I liked it before. The way you handled the painting originally reminded me of Thomas Eakins work. Thomas Eakins[/URL]
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