Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Full and Flowing- 9"x 12" oil on primed linen...

Finished one this afternoon that I had been working on, and plenty of time to drive to another spot.  Set up on a bridge over this swollen creek.  I undertoned it with blue to get a jump on the cools in the shadows...and you can see a .gif animation at Wetcanvas.com where I have a thread on this painting.  The animation shows the undertone, and a few steps to its making...

















Here  is the undertone, and only maybe once or twice have I opted for a bluish undertone.  Went with my gut hunch on this...
 















...and my palette was set up by scraping off the left over paint from my previous painting, then whipped up with the paint knife.  I used a bit of cadmium orange to warm it up, then used it to paint my tag alders (brush) and as a base for painting the water...
 











Finally...you can see my El Greco Trident easel set up on the bridge.  My linen is taped to a foam core board, and I can later adhered the linen to a wood support...

1 comment:

Ingrid Christensen said...

I enjoyed the step by step on the blue ground. That was an inspired choice.
Can you tell me which adhesive you use to adhere the linen to a panel after it's completed. Also, how do you avoid bubbles underneath since you probably can't roller and press the linen onto the board.
Thanks for any information you can give me. I'd like to get away from stretcher bars for plein air.
Ingrid Christensen