This painting consumed a lot of time, but I learned much. I used a Chuck Black painting as reference and worked with a fairly limited pallet mixing and finding colors along the way.
I used Michael Harding and Blue Ridge Oils and both work well, much more pigment and pizzazz then the Gamblin and 1980 I was using. One color I’d never used before was Nickel Titanate Yellow. I read that it can be used in place of white to lighten some colors and it worked very well.
This is an 18x24 stretched canvas that I now find harder to work with after using the linen panels on a few previous paintings. I could definitely spend more time on this but ready to move on!
Thank you so much TitiaD!
Derp... I only just now saw the extra images showing the progress.
I take it the orange underpainting was dry when you added the next layers?
TitiaD, yes it was a dry coat of Michael Harding Non Absorbent Acrylic Primer. It's a little darker then I'd like (Burnt Sienna Transparent), but it doesn't absorb the oil paint like painting on standard gesso. I'd tried mixing some acrylic paint into gesso as some had suggested, but my oil paint was still sinking into it.
This is so beautiful! Love the colors and the rocks are great!
Very nice
OH MY!!! This is so beautiful Debbie!
Really good. I like that rocks.
Thanks to you all for the kind words! It makes it worth the times I wished I'd never started this painting as the detail in each section seemed like many paintings in one. It gave me even more appreciation of Chuck Black's fantastic work, something to continue to aspire to.
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Loving it.
The purple mountains in the distance add to the depth.