New painting

Stream landscape pencil

first acrylic layer

After my trip to Boise, I decided to go back to the acrylics. Once again, a British tv show has inspired me. I have been watching “Fake or Fortune” from the BBC on Youtube. They take paintings suspected of being by famous artists and try to get authentication for them. Quite interesting to see and I recommend watching at least a few.

For this painting, I am using a photo from 20-30 years ago and have no idea where I took it.  Still, I found the meandering stream in the woods scene engaging enough to take the picture.  Next session will be to add depth.

Finished

Inked in

Finished pastel

I was visiting with family in Idaho for the last 10 days so there was no delay on finishing this one the beginning of the month.  I had a problem with uploading the final photo before I left on the 9th, so it had to sit until I got back and could try to fix it.  Miracle of miracles, everything is fine now.  

This was hard from the standpoint of the fence in front.  The space in between the verticals was really too small for a great deal of pastel work, so I put down a base layer with some watercolors.  It turned out to be a good way to handle it.  

Then the photos showed a little bit of a discrepancy on the green board and batten on the second floor.  Some photos showed it to be more of a yellow green and in others, it was more teal green.  I made it more teal as that was the most common in the pics.  I asked for verification of the color and she said it was more yellow.  What to do.  I put a light layer of yellow colored pencil over it and when I took it in, she said it was perfect  What a relief.  

New Home Portrait Commission at Last

Two story home

I started work on a new home portrait commission over the weekend.  It is so nice to be able to do something new – and 14×9 too boot!  Lots of detail in this one.  Stone first story and board and batted upper, along with a cream picket fence all across the front.  No flowers, but nicely colored trees and shrubs, along with flags for the fourth.