Working title: Stone Comfort
16 x 20 ", Acrylic on Canvas
30 January 2008
Okay, so it's not Acrylic on Canvas yet. It's only Charcoal on Canvas. But there'll be acrylic on there soon, I promise.
This is the sketch for one of a series of paintings that I'm currently engaged on...this expands on some symbols from Balance, and is a little segue into a painting that I have planned.
7 February 2008
Tonight I picked this up after some other painting and blocked in a few things.
17 February 2008
It's a couple of sessions later on this painting. I repainted the pyramid, put grey and black into the train and sky, and blocked in the rest of the areas. I covered the tracks and the left background with washes of paint (acrylic thinned with water rather than with acrylic medium) just to get them covered quickly.
I've now gotten rid of the white of the canvas most everywhere. Having a lot of canvas still exposed tends to throw off my color and value sense. So now I can start making final color choices and/or see if the things I have blocked in are doing what I want them to. The thing that immediately jumps out at me is that the background on the left (lightish red area) needs to be much darker...that'll probably be my first adjustment.
The red is mostly underpainting for areas that I plan to have green in the final image.
8 June 2008
I worked a little bit on this painting today after a more lengthy session on Nuggets.
I massed in a bit of detail on what will probably be a bunch of trees on the left, repainted the background mountains on the right, and fiddled with the train a little.
12 July 2008
Today I redid the ground level, firming up the path for the train, and did a little bit of work on the background and on the trees/bushes on the left.
