Fall Pear Collection
10" x 10"
Painted on Ampersand Gessobord.
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Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Original Oil Painting Fall Collection
Fall Collection
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10" x 10"
Painted on gessobord.
Here is a painting of things I collected on a nice autumn day. I threw in the bright red and green apples and orange paper to add geometric shapes to contrast the beautiful organic shape leaves and pine cone.
The red apple is the star of the show. It just glistens compared to the other objections. I guess I went a little crazy polishing that red apple.
Monday, October 9, 2017
Saturday, September 30, 2017
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Original Oil Painting Autumn Snow
Autumn Snow
12" x 12"
Painted on gessobord.
I put the final touches on my painting early this morning. The temps here in Wisconsin are below freezing with wind chills making it bite. Good time to paint inside. For this painting I used a photo from Rosemary Clark. I posted the photos below. I decided to let the water show through the patches of snow. I thought it made the compositions stronger and a nice contrast with the white snow.
Sunday, November 13, 2016
Original Oil Painting Autumn Sparrow
Autumn Sparrow
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8" x 10"
Painted on a gessobord.
There where many challenges in this painting. The background need to recede so that meant overlapping multi-colored leaves that are needed to contrast the sparrow and create the illusion of space. The leaves had to be larger as they got closer to the little bird and smaller and softer as they receded. Choosing the colors for the leaves depended mainly on the sparrow's light and dark body edges. If you look at the beak, tail, back wing and head the leaves are lighter. Even the sky color darken and lighten depending on the sparrow's edge. I kept the lightest sky color for the beak to draw the viewer's eye to the focal point in the painting. That took a lot of creative thought and luck.
The other challenge was the bird. So many layered colors were needed and I found that out by trail and error. I would look at an area on the bird ask myself what was the dominant color. After I mapped all the dominant colors I started to add the little varied colors and feather lines on top. This again require patience and trail/error techniques. I was lucking to have a wonderful photo to work from which helped and I posted it below. Thanks for the super photo, Rodney Campbell!
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Original Oil Painting Rambling River
Rambling River
12" x 12"
Painted on gessobord.
I used a reference photo from PaintMyPhoto to paint from. The photo is posted below and belongs to Lynn Quinn. Thanks Lynn for an awesome photo to paint from. I love how Lynn captured the details in the water so clearly. My goal was to capture that splashing water coming towards the viewer and Lynn's photo really helped.
I used a reference photo from PaintMyPhoto to paint from. The photo is posted below and belongs to Lynn Quinn. Thanks Lynn for an awesome photo to paint from. I love how Lynn captured the details in the water so clearly. My goal was to capture that splashing water coming towards the viewer and Lynn's photo really helped.
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Original Oil Painting Evening Light
Evening Light
12" x 12"
Painted on gessobord.
Here is another landscape painting where I am trying to capture an evening sunset. I decided on a red-orange to be the color of the light as it sets. It is reflected in the snow mountain tops, tree tops, leaves, clouds, water, etc. I posted Christine Huard-Adams' reference photo below.
Thanks Christine for the awesome photo!
Thanks Christine for the awesome photo!
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Original Oil Painting Tipped Apples
Tipped Apples
12" x 12"
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The leaves this year in Wisconsin are gorgeous! So my dog Tuck and I went on a walk gathering all the lovely leaves. I took about 60-70 pics of leaves, apples and Indian corn. I painted this from one of my favorite photos of the day. Can you tell that I photograph them in direct sunlight?
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Original Oil Painting Fenced Out
Fenced Out
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9" x 12"
Painted on gessobord.
This is a fun little painting. I like how the fence frames the house in the distance. At first I was going to call it "Fenced In " but the more I looked at it I felt the opposite. Here is the first signs of winter with a little of snow creeping in under the fence. As we all know winter is coming and there is no stopping it.
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