Since October 3rd I’ve been waiting for my eyes to recover enough to start painting again. Maybe I’ll be able to paint tomorrow.
For the last 7 weeks, I’ve been using the Artificial Intelligence program MidJourney to generate reference photos.
I intend to paint the following images.
Worked on the sky near the horizon, the background, and some of the middle ground of Landscape 3.
Reworked the blue part of the sky. When it dries I’ll rework the lighter slightly greenish blue just above the mountains before finishing the mountains and foreground. I took the reference photo last year in between Ranger Creek Campground in the Bighorn Mountains and the town of Greybull, Wyoming. It’s a pretty area with some attractive ranches. There are a few cattle in the foreground of the photo which I will paint.
I didn’t like the AI-generated sky in Landscape 3 so I just put a thin layer of white over almost all of it. I think I’ll paint stratus clouds.
Worked on Landscape Painting 8. This is only 8″ x 10″ so it’s possible to work on the entire thing in one sitting. Two or three more sessions and it should be finished.
Worked on the background and foreground of Still Life 3. I’ll probably work on the background and foreground two or three more times before covering it with a colored transparent glaze.
Last Tuesday I had cataract surgery on my right eye. It’s pretty good now but at this point, I need a new eyeglass prescription. Next Tuesday I’ll have surgery on my left eye. A month later I’ll get the new prescription so it will be about six weeks before I have the correct eyeglasses.
Worked on the background and foreground of Still Life 5. I’ll probably do that another two times before covering it with a transparent light tannish brown. Then I’ll be able to finish the objects.
Glazed the background of Still Life 2 with Transparent Brown Oxide and French Ultramarine Blue. I’ll probably glaze it one more time before finishing the table and objects of the painting.
Where each of my current paintings are right now
Think I have things with my blog back to where it was before I deactivated it.
