March 26, 2011

After Rain

36" x 48" oil on canvas.
Well it's spring break and even though my son brought his camera it has been raining or cloudy all week, so the light has been too cool to photograph anything. However this image was on my hard drive.
When starting this painting I was going to make the houses that are in sunlight in a continuous horizontal band, but very quickly I could see it wasn't going to work. So as you can see I didn't do that.



Detail #1. Here's another case where I ruffed out the shrub and then painted the negative space (the lawn) to define it. I like the look of that MUCH more than painting the grass before painting the shrub.




Detail #2. Ditto.















Detail #3. The windows and other stuff are just splotches of color.















Detail #4. More splotches of color.

5 comments:

  1. SO SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! really inspiring color choice DAN!

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  2. Your colour choices are so fresh. Not afraid to be saturated but you make it just right! I love the detailed pictures.

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  3. Hi Dan, beautiful work! Thanks for sharing this painting!

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  4. love the blue in this painting. Absolutely amazing choice.
    thank you for great posts

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