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I think I'm not going to put much more of my older paintings up on this blog, since most of what that would consist is already up on Facebook,
HERE.
Meanwhile here's a 'step-bystep' of one I like from 2008, the most thoroughly documented "procedural" I've got.
First off the finished product, "Hidey Hole," 10x8" oil on canvas, 2008. From an old photo.
Step 1, sketch in with charcoal.
Then a monotone value study, with mostly just a wash of burnt sienna.
Next, block in the darks. Sorry, it's been too long, I don't remember the exact colors used.
The sky must be next, to help set the tone, you might say, of all that's to come.
I work...
...and work...
...and work on the sky. 'Til I get that "just right" feeling of it. Thin, semi-transparent layers makes it look more...airy, or something. Deep like a sky is what I'm after.
Starting on the background...
Establishing color in the background.
A little more detail...
...but the color's wrong. Start over
That's more like it. More muted, more like I actually see it.
Then a lot of fun drawing leaves and limbs in the deep shadow color.
A little bit of detail in the tree leaves, and the brush below.
A kind of neutral base color on the left tree, where the light hits...
...and the 'bark-y' textures pop out.
Hidey Hole is the first in a three-part series, the other two on which I've made a start, yet to finish. I call it, in my mind at least, the "Unconscious Perinatal Projection Series." A triptych, I guess. Sort of. More on that later...
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