The contrast of the sky and the spring grass along the Wicomico in late afternoon is stunning. I preferred the underpainting of Permanent Mauve to the underpainting of Terra Rosa for most of the Maryland plein air oil paintings. The Permanent Mauve works better to suggest the brilliant light in the area of the Chesapeake …
Back to Trumpet Parts … I threw the die for The Color Scheme Game and ended up with Analogous With One Complement, Red/Orange as my dominant color. I thought the middle box that weaves through the right box would get lost if I used a background color too similar to the purple in the other …
Beginning a painting with a color scheme in mind has become a useful new habit. At the end of this weekend’s en plein air event at the vineyard I had sixteen small watercolor paintings, each exhibiting color harmony! I used my large, John Pike palette rather than one of my smaller, more portable palettes. I …
Trumpet Parts No. 72 illustrates the importance of color value. When I had completed the initial ink drawing I felt that the area of the large circle, the bell of the horn, had become too busy. and the my eye was stuck within that circle in an attempt to find a path, or a rhythm. …
I am enjoying close up studies of the spring blossoms as much as I am the panoramic view of the landscape when painting en plein air this spring. I’m not sure how well this subtle pencil and watercolor study will appear on computer monitors. I attempted to express the delicacy of the pear tree blossoms, …
Trumpet Parts No. 65 … The die gave me a double complementary color scheme of violet, yellow, red and green. The composition is cruciform. I find violet and yellow delightful to work with. I don’t have the same inclination when it comes to red and green. I neutralized the green. After stage one (far left) …