Cross training is essential to becoming a robust artist. Typically the three requirements are; painting from life - still life and figure in the studio with landscape in the great out doors, painting from reference including photo in the studio, and paint from the imagination in the studio. Most artist favour one of these and for that reason one should work in the other two modes to enhance learning and seeing.
This is photo reference of the twin peaks on Georgian Bay near Collingwood. My challenge is to make a painting with the peaks but in the shoulder season after the snow has disappeared and before the spring greens have taken over. So I have to imagine what that would look like in the morning light, ski hills in shadow, last years vegetation, spring colours, some sort of composition. Fortunately I paint outside all year long.
The colour in the dog woods is quite striking. The woods are in the early stages of budding and the new growth is taking on a myriad of colours. What to emphasize and what to subordinate?
Cross training is essential to becoming a robust artist. Typically the three requirements are; painting from life - still life and figure in the studio with landscape in the great out doors, painting from reference including photo in the studio, and paint from the imagination in the studio. Most artists favour one of these and for that reason one should work in the other two modes to enhance learning and seeing.
This is photo reference of the twin peaks on Georgian Bay near Collingwood. My challenge is to make a painting with the peaks but in the shoulder season after the snow has disappeared and before the spring greens have taken over. So I have to imagine what that would look like in the morning light, ski hills in shadow, last years vegetation, spring colours, some sort of composition. Fortunately I paint outside all year long.
Before Green, 20x24, Oil on canvas
The study was painted with cobalt blue, viridian, lemon yellow, yellow deep, yellow ochre, alizarin, manganese violet, and titanium white. Hogs bristle flats from #6 to # 14 were used.
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