One of my favorite places to paint is on a small island in Lake Huron near Sault Ste Marie.
Lots of trees.. and rocks. ( see my previous post about trees from my head )
Very typically Canadian .. but you gotta love it.
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I think your work is great John !
ReplyDeleteJohn would your remember the name of the paint colour that you used for the cottage??
ReplyDeleteMaggie..I am thrilled/
ReplyDeleteYou are my first visitor to leave comments.
Good question.. you do indeed have an eye for color.
That paint was given to me last Fall in powder form, unlabed by a young lady at our local supplies store. It is a bit close to a rust ...
I dont know the name of the pigment she gave me, but I can find out if you wish.
Let me know
Again .. I am so excited about having someone leave a comment !Thank you
oh I didn't even know that water colour pigments came in powdered form....that's interesting....
ReplyDeleteI think you handled the perspective in this painting very well John....always difficult..nicely done....apropos of nothing....I was talking to a professional newspaper photographer the other day and he told me that if you hold your camera exactly parallel to a building....ie no angles...then the perspective will be better and this reduces the parallax...keep those paintings coming John...ps I love love the little painting of the boat in the water...mags
John, The trees look good. Do you have a set procedure for painting trees – eg, trunk, medium tone leaves, shadows, hilites and branches? Peter
ReplyDeleteTrunk, then branches;
ReplyDeletethen leaves, starting with light tones adding layers of darker tones, then adding shading to both leaves and trunk and branches with a decisive posture on source of light, then usually one last pass at shadows to increase ligthness if there are opportunities for this
Peter; I just realized I do the trunk first, then the foiliage, and add branches last !
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