Wader Continued - Step 4

Spent an hour or so working on the painting, mostly on the foreground and the weeds.  Dont like the weeds, will try to make them more blocky and colorful, maybe tie in some of the color I will use for the background and foreground.  I want to incorporate some red into the painting, it really helps to pop the other colors.

Took a picture of the painting at this stage and brought it into photoshop.  I added some red, worked on the weeds a bit, have to vary the  bottom of the weeds, so they are not all growing in a line, also tried out making them blocky and more color, did a few bucket dumps of various colors for the background. The blue in the middle ground is too faded, have to keep to the original, just fade out at the top.  Hope to get to work on this today.

Wader Continued......

Finished Painting, 24 x 24

Step 3- I have painted the whole canvas loosely in greens and blue and began to draw with a paint brush some of the shapes and elements over the background color.

Step 4 -Image above. Now the real painting begins, sometimes I work on the main focus of the painting, I find once the colors and shape is established on the center of interest it helps me gauge the rest of the painting.

This is a close up of what will be the focus of the painting.

The Wader -

This is description of the painting process of the piece I am currently working on.I have the idea to use seabird shapes with the emphasis on the leggy look of the birds to use as the design element.

First Step: Sketching some bird shapes and exagerate some of the features, legs, bills and

squaring off the body of the birds, keeping the angular look.

2nd Step -The next step( image on left below) is to bring the sketches into Photoshop and move around the shapes to get a good composition and to play around with some colors. Image on right is the 24x24 canvas that I am going to use, I have put a red undercolor, I think this will compliment the greens and yellows when some of it shows through.

Boat House Row - The Process

This picture was taken from my small boston whaler on the Westport River, in Ma . The area is called BoatHouse Row and is at the mouth of the river with views to the ocean, dunes and river, one of the most beautiful locations in New England, my opinion anyway. I love the shapes of houses and want to experiment with perspective and simplicity in this painting.

This is a sketch I did from the photo, taking some creative liberties, I like the lines and marks and will try to keep them in the painting. I also will try to play around with perspective.

Image on left - Now I brought the sketch into Photoshop to play around with the colors to see if the design and composition will work.

The final painting, like it, but would like to do another one with more colors on the houses and more depth. Painting is 30x30.

An Idea For A Painting

Here is my first post, I did these painting awhile ago but wanted to show the process.

I had an idea for a painting of sailboats, I want it to be about the shapes, the triangles and the chunky boat shapes and summer colors. Here is a sketch I did.

Sometimes I bring the sketch into photoshop to play around with color.

I then did a 12x12 study of the painting.

And then a larger 24x24, I think the larger one lost some oth the whimsey and looseness of the 12x12. I need to not tighten up and be stingy with the paint when working on a larger piece but I am still happy with the results.