Artists who follow my work often enjoy seeing how a
piece was created. For their enjoyment I am showing some photos here that were
taken as I painted this one. It's a canyon road leading into one of my favorite
painting locations.
I began this painting with a few marks on my toned
panel, to budget the space and make sure all essential elements fit properly on
the panel in the correct proportion to each other. Then I established the
darkest tones/colors that would be in the final picture (the trees). Following
this I immediately blocked in general colors and tones for some of the distant
areas (mountains). This established the most important masses of color and
value, and established how they related to each other. From that point on
everything else was compared to these masses to maintain the correct
relationships of colors and values throughout the painting.
Bit by bit the underpainted areas were eventually
overpainted to add more color variation and texture for interest. And to bring
the painting to the finished state I then added more details like the phone
poles, wires, the road itself, and more detail in the major tree area.
I hope you found
this interesting and I’d love to hear from you if you have questions or
comments.
Email me at tombrownstudio@cox.net
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