The day delivered breadth and inspiring beauty as so often happens on my walks. I came home with a much clearer mind and a lighter heart than when I left. Just how I like it! 🙂
Now to render those same fingers of light and sea onto a canvas. This particular Sunday in the Terrill Welch Gallery was quieter than usual so I set up on the little patio to paint.
Just a few paint marks on the yellow ground should get us started.
Then the blocking in begins.
I keep painting but it is slow going and pretty soon the day is over and I need to bring the work into the gallery and close up shop.
The very next day, I move the wet painting to the home studio and continue working on it there. Finally! The blocking in process is complete. This might be it for today… the 24 x 30 inch walnut oil on canvas landscape painting is covered in wet paint indicating its major elements. Though things are still rather fluid, I have a fairly good idea where all bits are located. Now comes my favourite part of finding all the light and shadows. But this might be tomorrow’s work. I still have the brushes out though so anything is possible. 😉
Steady goes it as patches of light and shadow move across the landscape. There is still a ways to go before the first hints of light shift the forms into place. But for now a break.
Done! Well, maybe resting. Nope it is done!… I suppose you don’t need to listen to me arguing with myself 😉
Now for some distance so it is easier to see what we have here.
Ah well, it really was only resting. I have made a few minor changes to address a small visual tangent. If you know what such a thing is, see if you can find the change I made.
“Lost in the Light Edith Point Mayne Island” by Terrill Welch
24 x 30 inch walnut oil on canvas
The edges are now painted and drying. A hanging wire must still be added, a final photograph taken and the work added to the inventory program. But almost there!
When was the last time you had a tangent – visual or otherwise? 😉
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I thought you might enjoy this one Laurie 🙂
Always a thrilled to gaze upon your inimitable artistry and this one is quite effervescent at that my esteemed friend. Summer suffusing the painting and the studio inside and out. 🙂
This may have been the most challenging of light effects that I have ever attempted. It is a painting that I am pleased with though viewers seemed to only find mildly appealing when viewing it in the gallery. It is often the case. What the painter is most impressed with is not the same that impresses the viewer. So thank you for your review of the work! Made my day Sam.