This has been taken out of the book ‚The magic of oil painting‘ by Bill Alexander.
I plan to paint all the remaining landscapes I got available in books by Bill, not sure if I will do the still life ones. It is a painting I absolutely love. It is loose and it has a blueish greenish hue and I find that gorgeous. I no longer aim for realistic colors or overwork my paintings. I try to paint more intuitively and loose. This is the new way I want to go.
I hope you like it though.
Oils on canvas panel 20 x 28 in. (50 x 70 cm)
Such an awesome job! Love all your details...so beautiful!
Beautiful Tom.
I like that philosophy. Kind of inspiring, as I've been agonizing over realism more and more lately. This looks great, very crisp!
Super as always Tom . 👍🏼🇩🇪🇦🇹
Oh wow! I really love the different shades of blue here. Did you use a little green for the trees and foreground? That color is amazing!
Very nice, not nice there is no turorial!
The colors work so well together, sky, mountains, trees, little cabin and foreground are all amazing! Great work and I especially like your evergreens in this picture!
Thank you Jessie, I think getting loose and the painting still looks good is real art.
Thank you Sandy for your continued support!
Thank you Tomi!
Thank you Jeff. I mentioned it above. I think good paintings don’t need to look like a photography. I think even the more loose ones which are looking good are the better ones. But it is my subjective opinion. For me I decided to not spend hours and hours on a single painting any more.
But I am no professional 😀, I don’t need to earn money with them.
Many thanks Dirk! Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹
Thank you Nancy, I knew you would see it 😀 indeed a tabu from Bob has been broken here. Sap green has been used in the foreground, together with Prussian blue and van dyke brown. Amazing color for evergreens in winter 😀
And the cabin is darker than my usual ones.
Thank you Jos, if you want I can send you the instructions from the book. I don’t want to post it here as I am afraid to violate copyrights.
Let me know if you are interested. 😀
Thank you so much Brian. I am happy with the colors as well. And I don’t use the fan brush technique from Bob for my evergreens any more. I do them with the 1 inch brush like Bill does. I think the look better that way.
I love the detail!
Thank you Laura
This is almost picture quality. You are on another level my friend.
Wow, many thanks Tony!
Ooooo I love the pthalo greenish + blue tone here. Excellent details
Thank you very much Pam. Believe it or not there is no phtalo green used😀 Prussian blue changes the Sap in a way it looks like it.
It so lovely, It feels like this cabin is so lonely there. But aside of feelings - great compositional decision Tom! Great support of viewer's eye to travel to that cabin and really look at it and wait for someone to turn on the lights inside. Loose foreground looks awesome! Your evergreens are so dimensional because how you put that snow on their brunches. Beautiful!
Thank you Sunny. I am also very happy with this one. I like lonely houses. Evergreens are painted in Bill Alexander style, it needed several paintings to train my hand to get good results. And in future I will try to be more loose, also at the buildings, but it shouldn’t mean that I won’t pay attention to perspective.
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love the colors! I agree loose and intuitive is the way to go