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ACEO Landscape Painting A Day
ACEO Landscape Paintings
by Carrie L. Lewis
One new painting almost every day
Week 7, 2007
February 17, 2007
Landscape Study #58 2007
Light Snow on a Gray Day
I finished out the week with this oil landscape of a snowy day. Nothing unusual in that.
This landscape is based on something I saw last weekend in the Flint Hills and have already incorporated into a landscape painting. The serpentine ravine that appeared in the February 14 landscape also appears here.
This time, it is dry and filled with snow, an idea suggested to me not by my travels last weekend. Rather, it was suggested by the sky I painted on this landscape and the brown grasses covering the hills.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on acrylic sealed mat board
February 16, 2007
Landscape Study #57 2007
It is rather odd, but it seems like I am more likely to experiment when I'm not feeling well. Two years ago, I had such a bad cold I didn't feel like doing anything but sit in a chair, so I sat in a chair and learned how to write html code.
This past week, I have been dealing with varying cold symptoms, so it has been a struggle to paint. For the most part, I have kept up by finishing in-progress oils, but the last two or three days, I decided to dabble a little bit more with my acrylics. It had been sometime, after all, and they had been sitting idle. Besides, if I messed up one of these, it didn't matter.
I started two and have been glazing colors on both of them simultaneously. Sky, middleground, foreground.
Tonight, I finished them. "Landscape Study #57 2007" is the first of them. This medium is still somewhat of a mystery to me so my compositions revert to the more simple patterns of the Flint Hills as I practice layering and color applications.
But tonight I was brave! I added trees!
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original acrylic on mat board
February 15, 2007
Landscape Study #56 2007
Back to the snow for today!
I have been working on this one for a couple of days, now. I had to wait for the original oil sketch to dry. Then I had to wait for the first layers of color to dry. I was a little bit anxious to finish it tonight, so the previous work was still a bit tacky when I added the finishing touches.
But it seemed to work. I added brighter white highlights to the snow, remembering to be very sparing with them. I also painted the trees and smaller branches, then the fence.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on acrylic sealed mat board
February 14, 2007
Landscape Study #55 2007
This ACEO landscape is the last of three images cropped from a larger panarama.
I combined it with a location we passed on a recent trip through the Flint Hills. What caught my eye was the serpentine way a gully wound its way between hills. The road we traveled was higher than a stock pond half a mile or more away. There was no water, just bare ground and brown grass, but the composition was interesting enough that I made a rough sketch then and there.
Tonight, it found its way into this painting, a spring scene with lots of water.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on canvas
February 13, 2007
Landscape Study #54 2007
Spring Snow
This landscape was painted in two primary sessions that were separated by several weeks.
Like yesterday's ACEO landscape, this painting is one of three images cropped from a larger panarama.
This evening, I dry brushed a varying mixture of Titanium White and Cobalt Blue over the hills to create the look of snow. Keeping some areas cool and blue-ish and others brighter with either white or yellow overtones gave the look of vague cloud shadows and sunlight.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on canvas
February 12, 2007
Landscape Study #53 2007
Today's landscape painting is a reworking of an older painting.
In fact, it's also part of a cropping job.
I painted a couple of panaramic landscapes last last year and was not completely satisfied with either one. The first one was cropped into a series of three ACEOs a couple of weeks ago. This week, I cropped the second panarama one into three ACEOs.
This painting did not see a lot of tweaking. I added the clouds and changed the sky a little bit. Then, remembering seeing a series of stock ponds in the distance a some point, I decided to add the brightness of water in the middle ground.
That also helped to emphasize the distance in this painting AND put the viewer on a higher elevation than most of the landscape.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on canvas
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