18 x 24, inspired by Bill Alexander's Fall River. May have another go at this to see if I can make the brush strokes different, looser
I really love the richness of the autumn colours. And the leaves floating on top of the water is a great touch.
I'm with everyone above the colors are great, nice job
The leaves in the water are a cool detail. Nice!
PapaD , you got really nice water in this painting! Nice color mixing for orange color of the fall. Absolutely great there are no white highlights anywhere! This brings so much sun into the painting! I think you got really nice vibe from Bill’s approach.
I would suggest to make distant trees in some sort of orange and brown color muddied with blue of the sky to show viewer atmospheric perspective and create depth in your painting.
I agree, thank you. I will have another go at this. I wish I could think of these things while I am constructing the scene. It seems I can only see these general rules after the fact. Oh well, the learning goes on. Thanks, that is very helpful
Don’t worry about seeing things after things are done. I think many of us here get carried away by painting process. I am certainly the same. I taught myself to do tea breaks or snack breaks. It helps a lot. Especially when thing go south and I start heating up. :)
With Bill energetic approach it was a blast when I did one of his paintings. I felt empowered and it was totally different from the mood from Bob. But we just learn and figure out what works best for us.
Don’t worry about seeing things as you go it is especially difficult when we have tutorial on and try to replicate what video says, not much thinking involved in this case and it is normal.
Voy Kay once said that he watches video before couple of times and then goes to paint based on final product from instructor and not following video at all. This allows more thinking rather than following.
I agree, I have started taking stills of the videos ( I have learned how to download them from Youtube to VLC media) so i can keep the copies without commercials and there is no internet lag if the signal is bad in the studio. I will watch several times, but at this stage, i still need the step by step during construction as it is far from second nature. The stills help with where I want to end up but the video gives me the road map. thanks, I appreciate your insight
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Nice and colorful!