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A painting, step-by-step

7/29/2011

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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!
One: Underpainting, forming shapes and creating the layout
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Two: Treeline on the Horizon
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Three: Main Tree Forms
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Four: Main Tree Underpainting
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Five: Tree Details
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Six: Ground and River Detail
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Seven: Sky Detail and Touch-ups to Overall Painting
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Eight: Finished Painting! 24x36" oil on stretched canvas!
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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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