Painting done completely by observation from my photo. This was a particularly nice photograph with the light in the top of the trees and the shadows under the trees. I will attempt to do this one again to add in a missing sidewalk going across.
Blue Lake (acrylic on textured claybord)
Painting finished by an observation from the photo.
The colors are magnificent. This is my favorite painting.
I have changed the photo by adding in the small pine trees and red leaved plants below.
I am a beginning artist. I like things to come out straight and not crooked so it is very important to get things precisely where they should be in a painting.
That way it eliminates mistakes. Accomplishing these paintings and receiving nice compliments, keeps me going to do more paintings.
By finding the light and shadows in the particular photo I learn how to finish a painting. I know how to do that now since I have taken a Photography course which showed me simplification of the subject and knowing your light source.
Most of my paintings take anywhere between 4-10 hours to complete. Once I feel more accomplished in my paintings by studying subjects thoroughly, then I will attempt more plein-air paintings or alla prima work to begin the painting.
In my book I purchased: "Techniques of the Great Masters of Art", I have read that some of the great masters of art have actually painted by either tracing their subject, or using a ruler for exactness, or drawing the subject using a grid. They then start painting the background first and go forward producing layer upon layer and with the final layer adding in the scumbling for texture and glazing for highlights.
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This is an acrylic painting on masonite board.
Tankerhoosen Waterfalls located on Phoenix Street in Vernon, CT USA which is one of my favorites photos to paint. Painting is done thru observations of my photo. Painting finished on gessoed masonite board.
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Paintings by Rebecca Dufilie Copyright 2002.
Tankerhoosen Waterfalls -
Landscape Painting done in a Monochromatic Sepia watercolor paper.
Position of water level was important to get it exact. This watercolor painting completed through observation of light and shadows in my photo.
Left - Basic outline above was finished on watercolor paper.
Right -The watercolor painting on paper completed by observations from my own photo.
