I have 4 images for you today....2 I put on the finishing touches and 2..still building complicated color fields.
No kidding no photo tricks….this is a great red. It is strong enough to be the subject and let me build paint texture in the rest of the painting
I covered some of last weeks’ red in the water so that one could look through the water to see the skies reflection.
54 x 45 floating II
I have 3 separate and distinct areas of work here: the dark tree mass, the angled hillside, and 3, the water. Today I was able to get closer to the pulsating color relationships I am after.
I still need to work the sky, then move the tree mass over the sky, and finish the hill side before I finish the tree mass.
I am very happy about how the water is coming different colors to the same value: layer 1 turquois, today’s lavender layer, then followed later in the week with another turquoise atop the lavender.
48 x 36 floating I
This is the 4th and last painting of the day. I am leaving the orange hillside and sky alone. When everything is dry, I will try to repeat attaining that pulsing red. (Again, that is a glaze of alizarin crimson atop a completely dry cad orange pure.
So today I added an complicating layer of color on the hillside (different colors at the same value)
worked and shaped the tree mass
complicated the water and reflection as I did the hillside with color value games
One more to solve any big concerns and then an alizarin crimson glaze over the hillside, tree mass, and reflection