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ACEO Landscape Painting A Day
ACEO Landscape Paintings
by Carrie L. Lewis
One new painting almost every day
Week 5, 2007
February 3, 2007
Landscape Study #40 2007
I finished the ACEO Landscape week with this second visitation to the scene I painted yesterday.
Sort of.
I used the same basic design and idea, but today, I left the photo in the album and painted from memory and imagination. I also used Cerulean Blue instead of Cobalt Blue for the sky and snow.
Not too bad for the end of the day and the end of the work week.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
February 2, 2007
Landscape Study #39 2007
Since I started the month painting snow, I have decided to focus my 'studies' on snow for the month.
Since most of my snow paintings thus far have shown snow falls and gray days, I turned today to sunny skies and the brilliance of snow on a clear day.
This image is based on a photograph from my Michigan days and is a loose depiction of rolling hills and bare trees. It actually took me longer to find a decent photograph of a clear winter day. The vast majority of pictures were taken when snow was falling or blowing. I had to go through all of my albums of landscapes, trees, skies and water and finally ended up in one of two albums covering my days as a farm girl (nearly 30 years!) Once I found the right photograph, the rest was fairly easy!
This painting features a very limited palette of Cobalt Blue and Titanium White for the sky and snow and Raw Sienna, Burnt Umber and Ivory Black for the trees and grass.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
February 1, 2007
Landscape Study #37 2007
The forecast for the next couple of days is for cold and snow. I am not sure we will get snow, but I would not be surprised.
Snow in Kansas is not the same as snow in Michigan. The biggest reason is the almost constant wind. In my nearly five years in Kansas, I have seen Michigan snow only once .. and I had to get up at 2 a.m. to see that! Huge, wet flakes of snow drifting slowly to earth. You can almost hear them settle to the ground. It was delightful.
The usual type of snow in Kansas is fine, dry and, most usually, falling at an angle of some sort due to the wind.
So I decided tonight to make my own snow. My kind of snow. Michigan snow!
And another experiment with series paintings. As happened last night, I painted three simultaneously, lining them up and painting across the three cards as though they were one surface.
The result was very pleasing.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
January 31, 2007
Landscape Study #33 2007
A day or two ago, I mentioned to Neal my thoughts on painting small series paintings in one sitting. Or, alternatively, of painting a panorama on canvas, then cutting it apart to create a series of ACEO landscapes. I have done the latter before and to very good effect.
So tonight, when I sat down to paint, I set out three separate cards, all triple-gessoed mat board. I wanted to see if I could paint a wide-angle landscape in three parts.
Very deliberately, I kept the topography simple. Three lines of hills and clouds in the sky. I painted each area on all three at once. Sky. Clouds. Distant hills. Middleground. Foreground. There are enough differing features to make each individual landscape different, but they also hang together to clearly form a wide vista.
This one is the one I decided to post today and not only because it is the first one in the series, the one you see first in looking from left to right.
The collection was a challenge, but it was also quite a bit of fun. I can easily see other, similar collections. Perhaps in the near future!
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
January 30, 2007
Landscape Study #32 2007
After a long, somewhat trying day, I took time this evening for a trip back to my home state and to some scenery that I admired more than once. Mostly, I admit, because there were almost always horses in this field!
This image from the Fall of the Year is based on a photograph I have wanted to translate into a painting since the first time I saw it. That was decades ago and, until today, I had not done anything with it.
After working on so many imaginary landscapes and scenes from the Flint Hills, though, I decided this one was due.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
January 29, 2007
Landscape Study #31 2007
This landscape is a revisit to a larger miniature landscape I painted last year. I took a portion of that image and painted it afresh for this one.
It is another visit to the Flint Hills, but is more of a compilation of details and an interpretation of impressions than an actual scene.
By the time it was completed, I was dearly wishing for the opportunity to get out there in those wide open spaces again.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
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