Now the painting is really starting to come together. I paint detail into the trees, starting with the most distant ones first, keeping them light and more blue in the distance. The snow on the branches is light blue, rather than white. The trees in the middle ground have more local color and more definition to bring them further forward. The snow on those branches is lighter in color, too. In the foreground, I have painted the snow in dramatic shades of blue and lavender with subtle highlights of creamy yellow. I have done this to create an atmosphere of light reflecting from the building along with ghostly moonlight and shadow. There is virtually no white used in the snow. This will make the moon seem much brighter, since it is the lightest object in the picture, other than the horses in the foreground. I want to keep some attention on them, so they are almost as bright as the moon itself. I have started to overpaint the far horse, keeping the tones subdued relative to the near horse to create a sense of depth in the painting. More color and detail has also been added to the building to finish it off as the feature element dominating the picture.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Painting Progression-Moonlight Travelers-Step 6
Now the painting is really starting to come together. I paint detail into the trees, starting with the most distant ones first, keeping them light and more blue in the distance. The snow on the branches is light blue, rather than white. The trees in the middle ground have more local color and more definition to bring them further forward. The snow on those branches is lighter in color, too. In the foreground, I have painted the snow in dramatic shades of blue and lavender with subtle highlights of creamy yellow. I have done this to create an atmosphere of light reflecting from the building along with ghostly moonlight and shadow. There is virtually no white used in the snow. This will make the moon seem much brighter, since it is the lightest object in the picture, other than the horses in the foreground. I want to keep some attention on them, so they are almost as bright as the moon itself. I have started to overpaint the far horse, keeping the tones subdued relative to the near horse to create a sense of depth in the painting. More color and detail has also been added to the building to finish it off as the feature element dominating the picture.
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