Well, its been awhile but there has been a story between our last post and today. Like I said in my last post, I liked the colors and the mood at my buddies pool party and it inspired this little painting. At the end of the day, you gotta connect with the subject you are painting in some tangible way. Whether its the colors or the composition or the story.... the painting hopefully expresses something that you need to get out and show. Its part of you.
The above image is the final and I will show the steps and the thinking behind arriving at the final painting.
This was the starting point. The challenge in my mind was to organize the the people in the background. There was always constant movement so moving them around like chess pawns was no big deal.
There were a few items that needed to be eliminated and others that needed a new ground point. The gal holding the towel would be a great interest point at the highest contrast mass. Since my eye was going to travel in that area anyway, it seemed fitting to add a person that was interesting to me and that also added some color to contrast with the highly reflective aluminum corrugated wall.
The layin starts with large masses of color and value. I am paying attention to the extreme warms and cools happening that makes this scene attractive to me.
I like the yellow shirt of my buddy Eric as a nice warm to play off the purples and blues. Since there is so much blue a spot of yellow goes a long way and really stands out.
Then, I add our friend " Boots " talking to Eric at the Pool Cantina. I love how her black blouse becomes a lavender as a result of the reflected light. In fact there is so much reflected light under the overhang. I also start to add some trace of the bright light shooting off the Cantina onto the wet inner tube.
I now have 2 groupings that are working as sets. The 2 people at the Cantina and the group around the umbrella table. I have also switched the light on the side pool tiles farther down towards the inner tube to get a a hightened sense of the light affecting that ZONE the most.
Finally I add a figure in the lightest part of the painting and she balances the scene nicely.
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This is a demo that I painted for my Thursday Workshop. Its a scene from my buddies Bodega Bay Cabin deck. The foreground on the lower left was added to create the "S" curve.
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blessings.....
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