Pinecrest Lake

 So here it is.... my progress with this 20x20 oil painting. Continued from the last post "Starting an oil painting". 

Day 3 of painting, as you can see I have laid out what I think are all what I want to be the local color. This does happen to follow the scene closely in that detail. But if you notice I'm not committed completely to the color concept. Could I have exaggerated color choices? By all means yes! Maybe, in the future of another painting (Pinecrest 2) maybe I will. I seem to have a fondness to this scene. It is been sketched and painted already multiple times. I'm becoming very familiar with it and how I want to say things with my paints.

Basically on my palette these are paints from a few days ago. They are still fresh to use. I add walnut oil to my brush to help change the consistency to butter for better application to the canvas. It does take a bit longer to dry...with that being said, it's helpful to go back into an area and scrape out with my knife or wipe off or just paint over if I feel I need to. I also, mix up colors I think I want to use and then use my brush to grab another color and let some of my mixing happen right on the canvas. What do you have to loose! It wipes up if you don't like it. Also, I should point out when I do that, I just do a little dab to see if I like the color. check the value and if I even need it. 

You can see here, I have adjusted the shadow shape in the lower left hand corner. I will address this again on another day as I didn't like it's shape. I also addressed some of the clouds in the sky. I felt even though the picture I took some of the clouds had sharp angles to them (that's how the picture showed it) but it didn't work for the painting. So I started to bring them up. I'm not done with them yet. I Almost had reservations about the shoreline that dipped down in the right hand corner. Big No-no in composition. So I knew I would change that in my next day of painting. I also wasn't keen on the water color. But I'm leaving that for another day. I note I could have some graduation detail in the sky so played with that , but ultimately I would later not like what I had done. What I did enjoy was the red showing through in spots, I hoped I would not loose that. 

Day 4 next time. Any questions feel free to comment to me, I will get to them as quick as I can. Hope this is helpful. Hit the follow button if you want to be notified when I post updates...

Thanks Again, Debi