Sunday, April 19, 2015

I decided to stop soon.

I'm still enhancing the front ground but I'm mainly making most of the part lighter except some shadows I wanted to show up.
Then I'll touch a little more here and there where it looks too ugly. But I don't think I can make this painting much better even if I keep working on. It's about the time to stop.

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Finally adjusted the colors of cliffs

I knew this from the beginning. It's quite obvious that the darkest part of this painting is obviously the vertical cliffs in the shadows. However there are three colors of the darks in this composition due to the distances from where I was standing. The further it goes, the lighter and bluer it becomes. I finally put it in place. They're still wet and reflect lamp light so not so clear in this photo, but they're there.
Now I really need to define the colors and values of front ground. Then I would call it done.

Saturday, April 11, 2015

wet on wet

I wanted to push the colors further on this cow. So I inevitably tried wet on wet. Although the shadow part is still lighter than I wanted, I can see it's getting there. I might just need to push the lightest part lighter, just like its face.

Sunday, March 29, 2015

still working on mid range rocks and around

After taking this photo for today's progress, I realized the white brush on the left was actually slightly greenish instead of red-purplish. This is the pit hole you would fall in when you're painting from a photo. The values aren't too bad though.

At this moment adjusting values is my main focus.

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Shapes are ok now

The shapes are almost ok now. Now I have to decide colors and values in shadowed area. It's not so easy. And I know very well it would define this painting. Because I decided this composition based on those shadow shapes.

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Making values lighter


As I came to be aware of my paintings tend to be on darker side value-wise. So I started lightening the values from the sky then the top of the hill tnen plateaus, downward.
At the same time, I'm making each layer of paint thicker gradually.

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Working on clouds

Although I haven't updated for this landscape for a while, I've actually been working on the clouds a little bit for last a couple of weeks. Since I don't have much experiences painting these types of clouds, I'm experimenting what would work for me or my paintings. I'm hoping to find some good brush strokes that appeal to my satisfaction. A long way to go though.