Friday, I spent all day painting and this is all I have to show. I started one that I tried to save over, and over, and never got anything out of it that I was happy with. It had this early morning backlight to it that was gorgeous but I just couldn't get it luminous enough. The trouble areas were grassbeds. When light hits a grassbed it turns this wonderful bright green that I have had trouble with in the past. It's a very bright translucent green that I can't translate to the canvas. Next time I'll take my slingblade and cut the grassbeds out before I paint. There, problem solved.
This painting is on Swan Creek again, about 10 yrds. upstream from the previous post.
2 comments:
If you ever figure out how to convey those bright and saturated colors let us know. You aren't the only one who struggles with it.
I agree, I think it is a saturation problem. The values seem to be right it's just that it gets a bit washed out when in reality it has tons of chroma, nice color. Sheesh,it's always something.
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