I think the mosque needs some tweaks tomorrow before I glaze/scumble in the morning mist. Hopefully I hope I can sign it off tomorrow afternoon...
Saturday 23 March 2024
Dawn Fortress - stage 4
I think the mosque needs some tweaks tomorrow before I glaze/scumble in the morning mist. Hopefully I hope I can sign it off tomorrow afternoon...
Friday 22 March 2024
Dawn Fortress - stage 3
Painted in the basic fortress and rocks and the first colour pass on the morning mist at right. Hoping to get in the mosque and sea tomorrow ready for a final colour pass over the whole painting and finish on Sunday. That's the plan anyway...
New colour used: Ultramarine Violet.
Thursday 21 March 2024
Dawn Fortress - stage 2
To get the sky how I want I first have to paint in the pink and then glaze the blue over it (on the right hand side). In the meantime I have gave the rest of it a desaturated blue/green wash. The painting will be based on a blue/green - red/orange colour complementary.
Colours used so far: Phthalocyanine Blue, Phthalocyanine Green, Dioxazine Purple, Burnt Sienna, Quinacridone Red, Permanent Orange, Lead Tin Yellow Lemon and Warm White.
Wednesday 20 March 2024
Dawn Fortress - stage 1
This is kind of a study for a forthcoming larger painting in my "Point Of Light" series. I have realised that I need to get some paintings done for upcoming Every Day Original slots as well as needing work to take to IX in October. It looks like I will be exhibiting the Point Of Light paintings at the Abend Gallery in Denver CO early next year and need about 15 for the show and have done 5 so far so I need to press on with both directions at the same time...
This will have an interesting light and colour to it which I will carry over to the larger painting but need to try my hand at painting water first so this is where I will start. This could be an old Crusader castle taken over by the Ottoman Turks who have built a mosque in it and is probably located on the coast of Turkey... not that this ever existed as it is of course a fantasy....
This is the tonal underpainting stage using my usual mix of Burnt Sienna and Dioxazine Purple thinned with Liquin and applied with a rag and flat brushes.
Oil on fine cotton 16" x 12".
Sunday 17 March 2024
The Outsider
This is the fifth in my new series that has a working title of "Point Of Light".
A modest house on a well kept plot sits on a ridge amidst a poor neighborhood near a derelict petrol (gas) station, in the background is a distant brightly lit city skyline. The person/people that lives here seems comfortable to live away from the conventional norms of modern life represented by the glittering city and quietly get on with the way they want to live albeit in possibly reduced circumstances - a price they are happy to pay.
Each painting in this series is designed to make the most of the elongated panoramic format and I always saw this one in my mind as three horizontal strips, the night sky, the glittering city and the dark foreground. I think the next one will be connected to water, maybe a lake or the sea..... or maybe reflections in puddles.....
Oil on canvas 39" x 16". I always give the canvas three extra coats of gesso sanding down between coats to fill in the weave a bit so that it is nearer to my preferred painting support of linen.
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.
Thursday 14 March 2024
The Outsider - stage 7
I think I have put in enough on the left side of the foreground and have made a start on the foreground road. With a bit of luck I should finish it tomorrow..... maybe I will tweak the broken paving on the abandoned gas station tomorrow too...
Wednesday 13 March 2024
The Outsider - stage 6
When will I learn my lesson? I have struggled again with the foreground area left of centre because I hadn't really worked out what was going there. Now I like to wing it and make things up as I go along but I must remember to do that only after at least deciding the objects going in there... then I'm free to improvise. Anyway after a few hours of going nowhere I decided to put in a derelict petrol station as the line between the foreground and background needs to be broken up. Other assorted posts and buildings will go in tomorrow.
New colours used: Chromium Green and Manganese Violet.