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ACEO Landscape Painting A Day
ACEO Landscape Paintings
by Carrie L. Lewis
One new painting almost every day
Week 8, 2007
February 24, 2007
Landscape Study #65 2007
A Cold, Gray Day
Whew! The end of the week and I made it!
Equifest of Kansas was this weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday). Neal and I have attended this three-day equine event each of the last three years and we were scheduled again for this year. We do not take artwork to this show. We are support people for the Steve White Training Stable in Augusta, Kansas and for Ann Loder, who owns AL Firestorm. But it is still an all day event each of those three days. This year, I worked Equifest around gallery duties, so my calendar was doubly booked.
I had looked at these three days with a combination enthusiasm and doubt. Enthusiasm for being able to see and observe horses in person; doubt that I would be able to maintain my ACEO Landscape Painting a Day Challenge.
But here it is, Saturday, and here is my offering for the day. I was very pleased to be able to put the finishing touches on "A Cold Gray Day" before heading to the gallery this morning. There sure wasn't time to do it at the end of the day!
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on acrylic sealed mat board
February 23, 2007
Landscape Study #64 2007
Landscape Study #64 2007 is the first painting I have finished as a mixed media painting. It is one of several that began life as an acrylic paintings developed through the glazing technique.
When it became apparent I was not going to get the level of opacity AND detail I wanted with acrylics, I began over painting with oils. But I liked the sky, so other than adding a few highlights in the clouds, I left the sky alone.
The results are very pleasing and I have no doubt this painting will open the door to additional mixed media paintings.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil and acrylic on acrylic sealed mat board
February 22, 2007
Landscape Study #63 2007
My favorite part of this painting are the clouds. I did not intend them to look like they do, but the brush I chose had different ideas.
With most of my cloud painting, I use a soft, flat or bright sable. This time, I picked up a long handled bristle with a mind of its own. As soon as the first brush stroke was on the mat board, I knew it wasn't what I wanted.
It was better!
I think I will make a note to experiment with brushes more frequently!
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on acrylic sealed mat board
February 21, 2007
Landscape Study #62 2007
Every time we head out across the Flint Hills, I see things I haven't seen before. Sometimes I see the same things, but in a different light.
Things are still pretty brown out there on the prairie, but the promise of Spring is in the air. I couldn't wait, so I painted this scene with lush greens and a stock pond full of water. It's a nice change from my snow studies!
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on acrylic sealed mat board
February 20, 2007
Landscape Study #61 2007
Thunderstorms by Dark
After yesterday's wonderful compositions using mixtures of the primaries to paint light, I tried it again. A different blue and a different yellow and a completely different look.
The light is not nearly as strong, so the shadows are more subdued. Those towering clouds in the background give the clear signal that there will be "Thunderstorms by Dark".
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on acrylic sealed mat board
February 19, 2007
Landscape Study #60 2007
Spotlight
This landscape is very loosely based on photographs sent to me by a friend in New York State. This painting is not that pasture, but that pasture was the starting point and it goes to show how much a painting can sometimes decide its own fate.
I sketched in the pasture with acrylic Burnt Sienna, thinking I would do a pair of studies using the glazing technique and a limited palette. That worked really well for the first few layers of acrylic. The burnt sienna was great for warming up the greens that resulted when I glazed ultramarine, then Hansa Yellow Medium.
But it didn't take long for the whole thing to turn to mud. One wrong step, in fact. Disappointed, I set them aside over night.
Today, I took them down again and decided to salvage them with oils, since the transparent acrylic layers just weren't working.
I didn't have Sap Green (that arrived with an order from Dick Blick later in the afternoon), so I tried mixing Ivory Black and Cad Yellow. I had heard that was a good mix somewhere and wanted to try it out.
You can see the results. The green wasn't exactly what I was looking for as far as producing a nice, cool, shaded pasture, but what the heck! The two compositions sort of took over from there and I ended up with two paintings that look nothing at all like that pasture in the State of New York. I am posting the second of the two because it is my favorite, but both of them are available for sale.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on acrylic sealed mat board
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