5x7 oil on gesso boardFirst thank you to everyone for all your encouraging words, it helped to see all of them this morning. I have decided that I am not allowed to whine or complain. It is what it is, a learning curve.
These are the Sanibel Mangroves at dawn. (I love that place) I had painted many layers of glaze on it...mostly dark orangey ochres. Then last night I kept dreaming about the blues that sat up on top of the orange in the dawn's light. I must have had at least 3 dreams about it. I guess that's what happens when you keep painting till you can't keep your eyes open any longer.
This one taught me that it can be similar to pastel if I glaze underneath and use opaque on top, sort of like my skeleton theory.
2 comments:
This is AWESOME, one of my favorites of all your paintings! I can't believe you've only just started learning this technique.
By the way, don't know if you ever saw the remake I did of "Loriann's Vista"--if not, scroll to my March 6 entry.
And by the way, OF COURSE you are allowed to kvetch! :)
Thanks so much Jala. i am delighted to hear it's your favorite. I like it too. I also like that I saw it over and over again in my dreams and came back to the studio and it didn't completely allude me.
I will go now and check out Loriann's vista 2. I guess I didn't see it because I was already on Sanibel (computer free).
PS Thanks for the kvetching permission. I thought I needed to just realize this is hard and I am learning....but isn't that ALWAYS?
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