Preparing for Workshop

Doing a little painting at Angels Flight to get ready for the upcoming workshop.




Note use of a large brush (painting over an old canvas in this case) to establish the "macchia" with attention to chiaroscuro from the very beginning.




Adding more darks, still working with the same (largest) brush available.



Now paying attention to the sky, working in large areas of light, indicating some cloud formations.



Almost done now, establishing distant blue and mauve areas of mountains. Adding in some line to define the horizen.



Defining shapes of trees better, enhancing darks with thalo green and raw umber combo to deepen dark greens.

Note that painting doesn't "pop" into existence until this last step because without deep enough darks and more work on expressive brushstroikes the overall effect remains weak.