Topic: Landscape
A week 12 update!
Between last week and this week, I suddenly decided to attempt another topic (Landscape) instead because I suddenly got intimidated at the thought of needing to paint a final image. This hopefully helped me to chill abit and warm up for more paintings while painting barns and a field. 🙂
Final artwork #1 – barn by the mountains
28.5cm x 19.5cm
Color tests
I think the thumbnail in my opinion seemed to work a little better than the final due to the smaller range from more tinting and less shaded colors? I lost the field a little between the thumbnail and final for this landscape piece.
Photos of the paintings
I looked into Shishkin and Inness’s fields for reference on colors and foreground and Inness and Monet to paint the field (painting distance as a relative whole; changing colors), but in hindsight should have also looked into being better at managing the mountains and skies – I tried using more purples as a transition and tinting more to hold the image together but the mountains and skies still look abit odd. I got abit too greedy but it was fun… Perhaps I should have done more color tests (and also time to look into more sky and mountain practice)… :O
Also, here are the initial thumbnail sketches for landscapes
Pencil thumbnails for landscape painting
Will probably try another topic first before considering making more attempts. 🙂
Images referenced for this painting
Images: Barn photos, Inness, Monet, Shishkin
Good research and study. Just things to take note:
1. You isolate the subject matters and painted them separately. That will isolate the shape and makes it hard to design the image. Flip the images upside down and you will see.
2. The white areas in the image are equally strong. Think about it as if you are painting color. Don’t think about like leaving it out white. That will make u understand if you do need the white.