This morning I finished and signed Landscape 6. I’m sure I’ll put a few dots of paint on it before I oil it out. I like the landscapes with the crazy clouds I’ve been finishing but I get the feeling others don’t share my enthusiasm. I’m going to paint more of them along with still-life paintings, and paintings of clear, rocky streams. Eventually, I imagine I’ll settle on a predominant style and subject matter/s.
Worked on Landscape 6 all morning. I’ll work on this one more time to improve the tree trunks, clouds just above the mountains, small bushes, grass, and rocks in the foreground, and create more depth in the hills in the middle ground.
Worked on Landscape 6. Tomorrow I’ll work on the tree and bush trunks. Right now they are just a flat brown right out of the tube. There’s still work to be done on the foliage but not much.
I’ve been looking for the perfect surface to paint on, preferably a fine textured canvas or linen. Canvas is cotton. Linen is flax. A fine linen is great but very expensive. An 18″ x 42″ fine weave, oil-primed, sample piece of linen is $50. A 72″ x 18′ roll of the same linen is $660. I took a chance and ordered a 72″ x 30′ roll of triple acrylic primed fine canvas for $138. I received it last night and it’s great! $138 for 180 square feet of a fine textured canvas.
The problem with acrylic priming is it will absorb some oil out of the oil paint. Also, it’s better to paint on a surface that isn’t a bright white. I have a tub of non-absorbent, light tan acrylic primer I will paint the canvas with before starting a painting. So tomorrow I will glue two pieces of my new canvas to the two 16″ x 20″ panels on the table. Then I’ll prime the canvas with the primer in the photo below. That will be the surface I will paint on from now on. Fine canvas glued to panels and then primed with toned, non-absorbent acrylic primer.
Worked on the middle and foreground of Landscape 6. The trees and bushes need a lot of work but this painting will be finished soon. Again, the clouds in the three colorful landscapes are not meant to be realistic. They are dramatic and slightly abstract.
Painted the middle and foreground of Landscape 6 to get it all roughed in and get rid of the white. It will take a few more sessions to finish this painting.
Worked on the sky of Landscape 6
Worked on the sky of Landscape 6
Did the first step on the sky of Landscape 6.
Blocked in Landscape-Original 6. It’s a guide. The colors will change.
