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Back in the studio

3/26/2013

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Salt Marsh #1
End of Day 1 session
I managed to get back in the studio last night after about a week long break doing murals.  I love my studio.  I love working on a new piece.  

Last night I decided to work on a new piece that I hope gets accepted into a juried show that opens in May.  The theme of the show is the NC landscape.  I culled through many photos that I have taken while traveling around North Carolina over the years (from the Blue Ridge Parkway, to Charlotte, to the Raleigh skyline, Neuse River and the beautiful NC coast).  I ended up selecting two photos to use as my reference for this painting.  One photo of the salt marshes and one of some great looking clouds (taken in Raleigh).  I determined that I could combine these two images to make one interesting and hopefully striking image.  

Once I had a concept for the painting, I set out to determine the support or canvas I was going to paint this on.  I have recently been painting some smaller images (9x12 or 11x14), but I really felt like this image needed a larger canvas.  So, I chose the 24x30 gallery wrapped canvas as my support for this painting.  The next idea I had was to use the canvas in 'portrait' vs. 'landscape' mode.  I am hoping that this gives me a lot of room to make a dynamic sky and an interesting foreground.   I also decided to put a texture of gesso on the canvas to make the painting a little more interesting (I hope it works!)

Then it was time to draw the image.  I took my time, really focusing on getting some depth to the image, even at this early stage.  I used some transparent cyan, phthalo blue and alizarin crimson mixed as my drawing color.  Once the drawing was complete, I set out to block in the major colors - the sky and the green masses of the grass.  After that, I blocked in the reflected sky in the water and the cloud shadows and highlights.

That is where I left it at midnight last night.  I will get back in the studio tonight in hopes that I can move this painting closer to the finish line.  The date of submission for the art show is April 12th, so I have a little time to get this just right.

So, what do you think?  Do you like where this is headed?

Thanks for reading - Adam

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