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ACEO Landscape Painting A Day
ACEO Landscape Paintings
by Carrie L. Lewis
One new painting almost every day
Week 6, 2007
February 10, 2007
Landscape Study #52 2007
This painting is a brief departure from my studies of snow, but it was definitely a welcome departure.
This bright and sunny landscape started out as a deep woods and water composition. In that life, it was a second visit to an idea I had painted in 2006 and that had sold through eBay. A customer requested a similar image, but chose another of the four I painted in response. This painting was the only of the four that did not sell.
So today I decided to see if I couldn't spruce it up a bit. I added the sky beyond the trees and the blue reflections in the water. In the water, I added a little bit of Alizarin Crimson Permanent and was very pleased with the resulting depth of color in the water.
The trees were repainted last. They were lightened and brightened with Cad Yellow and Titanium White and the end result is Landscape Study #52 2007.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
February 9, 2007
Landscape Study #51 2007
This is a two-day (at least!) painting. I drew in the trees with thinned paint (a mixture of cobalt blue and burnt umber thinned with Liquin) yesterday. This part was so ridiculously easy and obvious that I hesitate to confess the idea of drawing the compositional elements first did not occur to me. I had been painting everything alla prima (all at once, wet-into-wet) and was getting frustrated with the difficulty of getting some details fixed.
So when I read in one of my landscape painting books about sketching in oils first, I was amazed (and embarrassed) not have thought of that sooner. After all, I spend hours drawing my horses before painting them. Why not landscapes? Duh!!!!
I blocked in these pines with a mixture of Sap Green, Burnt Umber and white yesterday. Today, that work was dry, so I added the snow on the branches and painted the icy water in the foreground. The entire process was much less of a struggle than the way I have been going at things.
The combinations of red, blue and yellow with white still need some tweaking. I think I can be a bit more adventurous, for example. But I do like the overall 'feel' of much better!
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
February 8, 2007
Landscape Study #50 2007
Bingo!
That's what I thought when I finished this one and set it back for a look. The landscape painting books I consulted last night set me on the right course as far as painting snow.
You can see the difference clearly between this painting and my previous attempts at brightly lighted snow. It's no wonder those earlier paintings didn't look right. They weren't!
The difference is the addition of tiny amounts of red, blue and yellow to the whites. The cooler shades of blue and red are predminant in the shadows and the yellow is predominant in the highligts, but all three colors are present in all of those areas.
And the difference is amazing!
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
February 7, 2007
Landscape Study #47 2007
This could be a companion to yesterday's painting, though it was not intended to be a companion. I again wanted to tackle the impressions of our weekend jaunt, though, so a lot of the colors and contours are the same.
This time, however, I was most interested in painting the snow trapped in the dry washes and ravines along the hills. Most of the snow we saw was in these sheltered places and it looked like a good subbject. It wasn't as easy as it looked like it should have been, though!
The most fun on this one was the lowering clouds in the background, where snow is beginning to fall again, and the tallgrass in the foreground.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
February 6, 2007
Landscape Study #43 2007
This ACEO landscape painting is the direct result of a Sunday afternoon drive through the Flint Hills. Neal and I took off for some train chasing after lunch on Sunday and ended up following one of our usual routes along K-177 between Cottonwood Falls and Matfield Green. We didn't actually reach Matfield Green because we went east at Bazaar (doesn't that sound like a book title?).
But it had been some time since I had seen the Flint Hills in the daylight and just about the first time I'd seen them with any snow. There wasn't a lot of snow, but it was there.
This is an attempt to put down in oil what I saw on Sunday. Yellow brown grass. Hints of snow in isolated places. A few clouds in the sky.
The soaring bird is my own contribution to this cold, wintery day!
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
February 5, 2007
Landscape Study #42 2007
Today's tiny painting was started about two weeks ago and was intended to be part of a study of evening and morning skies. In fact, when I started it, I had a very set idea of what it would turn out to be.
In letting the painting dry after painting the sky and hills, however, I managed to forget about those plans. Today, when I looked on works in progress, my eye settled on this one. Suddenly it seemed like a great candidate for some snow. The sun does rise and set on snow-covered hills, after all, and snow is just as subject to changes in light as the sky is.
The sky was very simple to finish. I added the sun on the horizon and some reds and blues in the upper sky.
All I had to do to finish the hills was to add the layer of snow and tap in some backlit trees. I thought that should have been fairly easy, too. But it was a challenge to make the snow 'fit' into such a brilliant landscape and still look like snow.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
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