Wings Over Winecountry, Colleen's place (1 Viewer)

[colleenc]

ok now done
brightened up the light and got some more weeds

 

[solitaryVSong]

Looks good Colleen. Elegant birds they are.

 

[jacquot]

Very nice work...
David

 

[timwootton]

Just look at what you're doing now, Colleen!!!! - Amazing; this melding of form, colour, light and atmosphere - totally and absolutely wonderful!

 

[colleenc]

thanks all, and blowing a kiss to you Tim without you I would not have been brave enough to go forward with the birds.

 

[Strandman]

just caught up with the swan pic- besides the lovely light, its a treat to be able to see the paint texture through it

 

[colleenc]

just caught up with the swan pic- besides the lovely light, its a treat to be able to see the paint texture through it

I've been coating my cheap canvas with Liquitex flexible modeling paste, then a couple of coats of gesso. It's a great surface with lots of subtle changes like linen, gets rid of the more mechanical surface of cheap canvas weaves. All the texture you see is from that, I still paint thin. I brush and scrape it on to fill up the weave and leave some surface marks to from the brush, or sometimes a roller

 

[Woody]

I've been coating my cheap canvas with Liquitex flexible modeling paste, then a couple of coats of gesso. It's a great surface with lots of subtle changes like linen, gets rid of the more mechanical surface of cheap canvas weaves. All the texture you see is from that, I still paint thin. I brush and scrape it on to fill up the weave and leave some surface marks to from the brush, or sometimes a roller

Interesting that you're treating the canvas before starting work on it. I wish I could afford linen, I bet you do too, but I always end up with the coarse stuff!

Mike

 

[colleenc]

Interesting that you're treating the canvas before starting work on it. I wish I could afford linen, I bet you do too, but I always end up with the coarse stuff!

Mike

well linen has drawbacks too when stretched, but I do use it at times, I have it drymounted to a board. but this made surface is really nice, and turns any cheap surface in to something very nice to paint on.

 

[nickderry]

atmosphere, rich whites full of colour, tone and composition, beautiful!

 

[colleenc]

thanks Nick

here is the second painting I'm donating for the Canine Companion auction....still going for the cuteness factor.


Working on a new surface, Art & Enns, made in Canada, I got from Jerrys... Im not thrilled with tho it might be good for plein air, it's acutally plastic with a very pebbly surface. Has anyone here used it ? I'm using the Haircell panel for oils and acrylics, they make some for watercolor too. I put some modeling paste on it to fill in the pebbly stuff some and it still shows, but it did take the paint nicely...big deal here is I somehow managed to get a lot of light with only a limited value range all high key....lots of fog paintings last winter paid off.

and finally getting to the looser style I wanted, its been a long journey

 

[timwootton]

Super result, Colleen - beautiful colours and very fine work with those edges.

 

[Apodemus]

I hadn't seen the swans, which are superb, and this one is so much more than a cute puppy painting - it's beautifully handled and full of life.

 

[Lykos]

:clap::clap:

beautiful,very beautiful

greetings Gaby

 

[colleenc]

Thanks all for the encouragement, I think I'm wobbling in to new areas in my painting that are getting very interesting to me. looser freer yes but also a change in light and color that I'm enjoying.

Its a wonder as on the personal front its one earthquake and tsunami later...

 

[jacquot]

Sometimes those things can make for new ways of seeing.... I felt that "what next" moment that Tim writes about in the swan painting.

 

[colleenc]

Sometimes those things can make for new ways of seeing.... .

I hope so, I'm looking for the blessing in disguise, its well camouflaged right now

 

[Woody]

Aw what a pair of sweeties! I think you're hitting your stride, not wobbling.

Mike

 

[phil baber]

As always...remarkable fusions of light, colour and wonder!...

 

[colleenc]

been working very intensely on seascapes with a focus on composition....working through a series of 100 which is how I put myself in a steep learning curve... I've worked out comps from the thumbnails of Payne in his book Composition of Outdoor Painting, and copying some of the masters like Waugh, then going to my own photo refs to apply what I learn...it's coming along and getting better this is # 26 the only watercolor of the bunch so far. From one of my favourite places Bodgea head, down the cliffs at the end of the small beach there.

quick 20 min study for the watercolor, 15 min flash on the oil