Worked on the blue sky, middle ground, and foreground of Landscape 4. A while ago I made corrections to the blue sky which I thought blended in with the original blue. A week ago I took a photo of this painting. In the photo, the corrections showed up as halos around clouds so this morning I repainted the blue. There is work to do on the middle ground and foreground, especially the large bushes.
Winter is finally here. The next few days will be snowy and cold but we like it as long as we don’t have to shovel it and the driving isn’t dangerous.
Worked on the middle and foreground of Landscape 7. I’ll pretty much finish this painting the next time I work on it. The three distant greenish hills need to be toned down. The trees and bushes need to be finished up and the clouds, especially the tall cloud in the middle, need a little work.
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.
Worked on the sky in these two landscapes and the linen in these two still-life paintings. The clouds are not finished. For two or three weeks I’ll let the still-life paintings dry before applying glazes. Next, the middle and foregrounds will be worked on in these two landscape paintings.
Worked on the bottle and table of Still Life 2. The next session I’ll rework the apples, plate, and cup. After that, it will just be some finishing touches.
Worked on everything but the sky in Landscape 8. The clouds need work but they are still wet. None of it is finished but it’s getting close. This painting is only 8 x 10 inches.
Reworked all of Landscape 2 the last couple of days. I’ll rework it one more time and then finish off the details. This should be finished in a couple of weeks because of the drying time between painting sessions, a week between each session.
I think I will finish five or six paintings in January.
These two will be the next two paintings I will begin maybe by the end of the month. One will be 16 x 20 and one will be 20 x 16.
A hyper realistic painting of a closeup of crystal clear rocky stream using the rule of thirds –ar 16:20 –v 5.2 Job ID: 624f1908-cb66-4a53-bf8d-20d7a6b0c1c0A realistic painting of a closeup of crystal clear rocky stream using the rule of thirds –ar 20:16 –v 5.2 Job ID: 989fa7a7-2dd6-436e-a8db-0b4434fc21c6
The captions of the two paintings are the command I gave the MidJourney AI program. It took a couple of weeks to narrow the images down to these two images and a handful of others. You give it a command with whatever parameters and it produces four images. Then you can vary any or all of the four images in a few different ways and you get four different images for each one. I did this many, many times. The command in the captions was the original command. I’ve wanted to do oil paintings of closeups of clear, rocky streams for a while. It won’t be easy. I’ll paint the bottom of the stream entirely with grays. After the grays dry I’ll paint over the grays with different colors transparent glazes. That’s old-school oil painting.
Worked on the linen of Still Life 5. I’ll probably rework the linen once more before covering it with a colored glaze. The onion, radishes, radish greens, summer squash, bottle, and flour shifter won’t take very long to paint.
