I thought it would be neat to show a piece in stages as it's being painted!
A little background: My mom suggested I paint a landscape for an art show on the back in April, and I wanted to dive back into oils, since I've been using acrylics on mostly everything (acrylics are ideal for my portrait business since I have to paint them so quickly and ship them out- oil paint just takes so long to dry that it's not practical or efficient for pumping out art quickly). So, Everything was free-handed on the canvas- no planning or sketching like I have to do with portraits. Of course I had an idea in my head, but no set arrangement of images. It was a lot of fun and actually quite a quick painting! I used another landscape painting I'd done for a commission as inspiration, but added brighter colors and a larger stream of water in this one. SO, enjoy watching the painting transform in the pictures below!
A little background: My mom suggested I paint a landscape for an art show on the back in April, and I wanted to dive back into oils, since I've been using acrylics on mostly everything (acrylics are ideal for my portrait business since I have to paint them so quickly and ship them out- oil paint just takes so long to dry that it's not practical or efficient for pumping out art quickly). So, Everything was free-handed on the canvas- no planning or sketching like I have to do with portraits. Of course I had an idea in my head, but no set arrangement of images. It was a lot of fun and actually quite a quick painting! I used another landscape painting I'd done for a commission as inspiration, but added brighter colors and a larger stream of water in this one. SO, enjoy watching the painting transform in the pictures below!
One: Underpainting, forming shapes and creating the layout
Two: Treeline on the Horizon
Three: Main Tree Forms
Four: Main Tree Underpainting
Five: Tree Details
Six: Ground and River Detail
Seven: Sky Detail and Touch-ups to Overall Painting
Eight: Finished Painting! 24x36" oil on stretched canvas!
The final painting sold at the art show, BUT... there are notecards available and archival prints, too! (Just in case you fell in love with it!)
Thanks for reading!
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