Paining in the wild with a Kat and a Robin!
Robin picked me up at 7:15 and we went to the creek at 46th St and set up to paint in the real life. Kat joined us and whipped out 3 paintings and we slogged through 2 (Robin) and 1 (me) paintings. I almost feel like I should tape my glasses over so that I can only see through the middle and no peripheral sight. Lovely morning and challenging to paint in the real life and have it look like a version of real life as filtered through my brain.
Top photo is the final version. The one below is an in-between version and the photo is what it looked like.
The photos look so different than the real thing. I don't remember the painting being so dark and then I look at it and sure enough, there still are dark sections that I haven't green-d in yet. I have to fix the bridge and the ground foliage and then the trunks and then the tree foliage. Might eventually be okay. Why do my paintings look better as photos?????????????
Fix fix fix. In real life those three trees on the right were hit by the sun and were totally white. It was really hard to focus on just that area while in the wild of real life. Still not sure those white trunks make sense.
I had a blast! Thank you for just getting me out there to paint plein air. Also, thanks for the pepper plants. I'm off to plant them this morning.
ReplyDeleteYes to what Robin says! It is that power of responsibility and saying to someone else "we'll be there" and then feeling guilty if we don't! And it was SO FUN! thank you!
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