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ACEO Landscape Painting A Day
ACEO Landscape Paintings
by Carrie L. Lewis
One new painting almost every day
Week 4, 2007
January 27, 2007
Landscape Study #30 2007
When Everything Turns to Gold
This painting is entirely imagination.
Neal described it as 'cinematographic'.
Every now and again, I like to do a painting like this just becauuse it is fun to play with pure color and because I love the interaction between light and water. "When Everything Turns to Gold" is my first miniature venture into images of this size.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
January 26, 2007
Landscape Study #29 2007
It has been a long time since I painted a mountain. There just aren't many of them in either Michigan or Kansas.
Tonight, though, I looked at the current landscapes in progress and was not overly thrilled by any of them. I did work on two, but finally picked up a blank card and just began painting these mountains. Life, righ now, seems filled with mountains of a different kind. Why paint mountains?
This image is purely imaginary, but I am hoping, some day, to get to the Rockies and see real mountains. Until then, these will have to do.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
January 25, 2007
Landscape Study #28 2007
At the Edge of the Wetlands
I finished two landscapes tonight with the same palette. Similar colors but completely different looks.
It was a tough call which one to post. I like them both and they are both very nice.
In the end, I chose this one because it is the more unique of the two. It started out as a Flint Hills scene, but I ended up wiping out the hills in the background and redoing the foreground area. This the result and I am especially pleased with the water in the foreground.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
January 24, 2007
Landscape Study #26 2007
Five at Twilight
Today's original ACEO is the first in which horses have appeared in a secondary role. Since beginning this study of the landscape in miniature, I have been very careful to stay away from animals of any kind so that I was focusing on the landscape as the primary subject, rather than in a supporting role.
But I knew before I finished this painting that it required horses. And not just any horses, but the wild horses I have seen roaming parts of the Flint Hills. In order to keep them from becoming the primary subject, though, I kept them small. Browsing, resting or wandering along the top of a ridge in the near distance.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
January 23, 2007
Landscape Study #25 2007
Dawn's Early Light
One of the great surprises of moving from Michigan to Kansas is how different the skies are. The color is about the same, but the clouds are different. There is very little twilight in Kansas compared to what I grew up with in Michigan. At the high point of summer, the sun shines on the north sides of the buildings.
Another phenomenon I have seen here in Kansas is the spotligt beams of sunlight that often pierce the skies at sunset. Shadows, too, sometimes stretch across the heavens, spreading over the zenith, then converging again on the opposite horizon.
I did not set out to paint that sort of a scene when I started this painting last week. I was experimenting with colors and color applications. When I finished work on Saturday, this painting was little more than an evening sky and a dim landscape.
When I looked at it this afternoon, intending to flesh out the landscape, I couldn't think of anything really spectacular to do with it. The pond I had painted in last week seemed out of place so I filled it in. Trees didn't seem like the right thing. Clouds didn't even seem to fit into the picture. What I ended up doing was brightening the patch of sky where the sun was about to rise.
That's when I thought of the shafts of light I had seen in the past. Could I do something like that and make it look believable? Why not try?
So I put a little bit more white and yellow paint on the painting, then pulled it upward with a finger. Two quick strokes, slightly divergent, and that was just enough.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
January 22, 2007
Landscape Study #23 2007
Storms Building
I started my painting week today by preparing several mat board cards for new paintings. A new batch had been cut and gessoed last Saturday, so the work I wanted to start today was that of putting down the first layers of paint. Since oils take so long to dry, painting some skies seemed like a good way to start the week. And to warm up for the more serious work of finishing paintings.
It certainly seemed to work. By the time I completed that task, two new ACEO Landscapes had come to life. Neither one was planned by anything more profound than the Good Lord's creative prompting and some quiet time.
"Storms Building" is the first of those and it was suggested after I added the darker colors at the top of the sky. I had intended that to be fresh sky, but after dropping down two work on the horizon, another idea came to mind. "That's not sky," it said. "That's a high, dark cloud." From there, the rest of the idea developed. The conclusion of the matter was that there was a storm cloud just beginning to rain directly overhead, just coming into view. Further off, there was another thunderhead, with the bright, golden highlights of the sun making it glow.
Since we were doing some new and interesting things, I decided to fill the foreground with lake and separate the waters above the earth and waters on the earth by a tree-lined shore. There are places like this in Michigan and it was almost like a visit home to finish "Storms Building".
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
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