Grey Bonnets
After all the Paint Out paintings I did last week, I came up with several things I wanted to work on. So last night I did a black and white exercise so that I could experiment with the different types of white, and to focus on the painting without the complication of color. I did this piece from a photo I took back in 2007 somewhere near Llano, TX. There are actually some bluebonnets in the field, but you can't really tell since in this piece they are grey. I suppose that is what Spring in Texas looked like back before they invented color, like in the days of Gunsmoke.
In addition to my values, I worked on the composition of the tree framing the scene, and also paid some special attention to my edges. That is an aspect of my painting I want to improve. I have been reading a superb blog by Stapleton Kearns. Mr. Kearns is a fantastic artist and he is kind enough to post some of the best content on landscape painting that I've ever seen. Wonderful stuff, and his most recent posts are about the history of landscape painting.
"Black and White Study"
8x10 oil on lead primed canvas
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Submitted by donthacker on Wed, 2009-08-19 19:43
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