Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.350 New Start Edition

Hello again painting fans.

I'm off to the Kent Art Association, in Kent, Connecticut to drop off the Sedona roadway scene (our last project) for the latest show. Hopefully it will get some attention but it's always fun to see what's there.

This week I'll be continuing with the Arizona roadway scene. The photo that I am using is seen directly below. I'll be using my usual acrylic paints on an 8x10 inch canvas.

Well, that isn't quite accurate. I actually won't be continuing with this painting. After the last installment I tried moving ahead but things went rather badly. After applying another layer of paint to the sky, I was hoping to add to the details of the mountain. Suffice it to say that I ended up with a brown mess. The paint got thick and the details heavy-handed. I probably chose the wrong subject. In any event, I realized that I needed to move on and leave this behind. And so I have. (Note that I want to have a fresh piece for one of the two remaining Kent summer shows. I don't want to waste any further time with this one. Also, this painting has lost all spontaneity. That would be evident in the final result.)

The new photo that I will be using is seen directly below. It depicts a scene in southern Arizona.

I'll be doing this one on an 8x8 inch gallery wrap canvas (a thick canvas intended not to be framed). Of course I'll be using acrylic paints.

I started with an outline in blue. There was the cactus itself and the 3 horizontal bands to the rear, sand, brush and sky. Due to lost time, I've moved ahead a bit and painted in the base colors of each. Note that the blue outline is still visible. It will not remain so.

The current state of the painting is seen in the photo directly below.

That's about it for now. Next week I'll have more progress to show you. See you then. As always, feel free to add photos of your own work in the comments section below.

Earlier paintings in this series can be seen here.

Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.349 Bar Mitzvah Edition

Hello again painting fans.

This week's post is of the robo variety. The boran2 boy's Bar Mitzvah begins at 9:30AM eastern and I won't be around until later on this afternoon. I look forward to reading all your comments. Please don't wreck the joint in my absence. ;-)

This week I'll continuing with the Arizona roadway scene. The photo that I am using is seen directly below. I'll be using my usual acrylic paints on an 8x10 inch canvas.

When last seen, the photo appeared as it does in the photo directly below.

Since that time I have continued to work on the painting.

Though I had little time, I did manage to put some paint on the canvas. I attempted to add a layer of paint to the sky. While I did manage that, there is a large splotch to the left. I will have to do another just to even things out. On the mountain itself, I started to add browns, both shadowed and lit. This too will need more work. The illusion of rock is far from where it needs to be. Not a very satisfying cycle but I was preoccupied with preparations for the boran2 boy.

The current state of the painting is seen in the photo directly below.

That's about it for now. Next week I'll have more progress to show you. See you then. As always, feel free to add photos of your own work in the comments section below.

Earlier paintings in this series can be seen here.

Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.348

Hello again painting fans.

This week I'll be a new painting, another Arizona roadway scene. The photo that I am using is seen directly below. I'll be using my usual acrylic paints on an 8x10 inch canvas.

I enjoyed the prior Sedona roadway scene, so much so that I'm not yet ready to move on. I'm trying another similar one. While the last piece was done from my own photo, this one is stolen from someone's vacation photos. Note that while the roadway is simpler the mountain is perhaps more challenging. And I need to do this one fairly quick for the upcoming summer shows. It will be interesting.

I began by setting out the main elements in basic colors. Sky, mountain and foreground are all ready for their upcoming revisions.

The current state of the painting is seen in the photo directly below.

That's about it for now. Next week I'll have more progress to show you. See you then. As always, feel free to add photos of your own work in the comments section below.

Earlier paintings in this series can be seen here.

Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.347

Hello again painting fans.

This week I'll be continuing with the Sedona, Arizona roadway scene. The photo that I am using is seen directly below. I'll be using my usual acrylic paints on an 10x10 inch canvas.

When last seen, the painting appeared as it does in the photo directly below.

Since that time I have continued to work on the painting.

At the outset, note that the camera has, once again, darkened the painting. Rather dramatically, I'm afraid. On to the changes. The details of the roadway have been put into place including the yellow markings. The large central median is actually a traffic circle and has been delineated to reflect this. The two signs to the right are complete with the blue one much closer to rectangular than in the previous cycle. The buildings of the middle ground are complete. I've left things simple to help add the illusion of distance. I've also adjusted that white fence again. The painting is now complete.

The current state and final state of the painting is seen in the photo directly below.

That's about it for now. Next week I'll have a new painting to show you. See you then. As always, feel free to add photos of your own work in the comments section below.

Earlier paintings in this series can be seen here.