Showing posts with label Acrylic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Acrylic. Show all posts

Saturday, January 24, 2009

A little more.....


Almost finished. Just a few more touches needed and I will paint around the edges of the canvas in a continuation of the front. This painting is on a fairly large 24ins x 24ins square gallery canvas with quite thick sides, so it needs no frame.
Somehow I seem to have got the cross piece of the top window pointing in the wrong direction! I will fix that, and then sign the painting.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Stockdale Mill painting stage 3

Here I have brightened up the colours of the building and worked on the rocks and water in the foreground. I have also put some highlights and shadows in the background trees.

As usual I am in danger of overworking the painting and making it too realistic!

Problems still to fix:

The perspective of the red building is still off a bit. The eavestroughing seems to get wider as it receeds, instead of getting narrower.

I haven't finished painting the left side of the picture yet. I think it needs some red to balance the large area of red on the right, but I am not sure what to do, as in the original scene there is no red there.

I will add a little detail to the windows that still need panes, but I will just suggest the cross pieces lightly.

The dead grasses in the foreground do not show up enough so need more contrast relative to the rocks.

In th orginal painting the yellow sky looks more even than it came out in the photo.