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The Burning Mist = Oil on Linen, 24 x 36

Picture
This is the painting I am working on with my Shared Studio Time class. I went over how to lay out a painting, about how to use the Golden Mean to make a pleasing composition, how to transfer an image to the canvas, and how to begin. I forgot to chronicle this one until a fairly late point in the process but will go over most of what I have done. I worked with a fairly simple palette of Prussian blue, Cad Yellow Medium, Alizarin Crimson, Permalba White, and Vine Black. The cad yellow medium wasn't cutting the mustard and I switched to Hansa Yellow which gave a much better result. It is a more transparent and cleaner color to work with. I began by transferring a basic drawing using charcoal to get the placement of the important players. This is going to be a fairly simple painting so there isn't much to get "right" as far as scale and perspective, other than the deer placement and size. I am working from a reference landscape photo I took in Cades Cove Tennessee, as well as a photo of a whitetail buck in velvet that I took in another part of the same park. The sun was coming up and was burning off the fog giving a mysterious background with a strong light streak across the pasture. It is important to get the values correct, and possibly exaggerate the contrast to get a sense that the morning sun had just risen above the mountains casting strong light across the pasture, causing the deer to look up from it's feeding.
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  • Home
  • Contact
    • Purchase Inquiry
  • Paintings
    • Latest Work
    • Recent years
    • Quickies, Plein Air, & Minis
    • Older Work
    • The Nude Figure
    • Step-by-Step >
      • The Masks We Wear
      • Lily in the Flower Garden
      • Late Fawn
      • Buffeting Buffet
      • Bounty
      • Fishing Otter Be Fun
      • The Burning Mist
      • Queen of the Coast
      • Natures Nursery
      • Patient Reflections
      • Victoria (S-B-S)
      • The Challenge (S-B-S)
      • Fall Spider and Shovel (S-B-S)
      • Misty Encounter (S-B-S)
      • Bull Frog Hunting (S-B-S)
      • "Fishing Hurricane Falls Pool" (S-B-S)
      • "Afternoon Tea" (S-B-S)
      • "After the Play" (S-B-S)
      • "Grapes to Wine" (S-B-S)
  • Drawings
    • My Drawings
    • Nude Drawings
  • Available for Purchase
  • Videos
  • ART-Tickles
    • Oil Painting 101-Choosing Paint
    • Oil Painting 101: Choosing brushes
    • Oil Painting 101: Solvents
    • Oil Painting 101: Mediums
    • Oil Painting 101: Indirect Painting
    • Choosing an Easel
    • Oil Painting 101: Direct Painting
    • Choosing and Using Acrylic Mediums
    • Inspiration
    • Painting 101: Portrait Palette Recipes
    • Color mixing and color space
    • Pricing Your Artwork
    • Golden Ratio
    • Paint in the FREEZER!?
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