This painting is another pre-snow painting. As in the previous painting , it was painted with the aid of the photo that had been modified by doing "thumbnail sketches". Modified, meaning that I preplanned the painting using small drawings, usually no bigger than 2 1/2" x 3" or proportionate to the painting support.
These small drawings would include the origin or direction of the light in the painting, thus dictating the shaded sides of objects and their values. These values would also give me the foreground, middle ground and background objects or in other words, the "aerial perspective". On the whole, these sketches constitute the "composition" or "layout" of the painting. The thumbnails, being small, there is little or no room for the addition of details.
These thumbnails are a wealth of information, allowing the artist to start "blocking in" the painting and proceed with confidence.
2 comments:
Frank really impressive. I love the looming feeling of the tree in the center top. Also thanks for sharing your technique for this piece. I am at the point where I'd like to try some competent studio work, and your process is very helpful... ;)
cheers, Mike
Mike, glad that I could help. Good luck with the studio work. I am sure that it will be great ! :=)
Take care..
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