We love visiting family in Southern Vermont during the summertime. On our drives on various back roads, you can often find us on the side of the road with my head hanging out the window taking pictures. "Pull forward, now back...I can't get it from in the car. Can I just get out for a minute?" (10 minutes later we resume our drive only to find another awesome vista around the corner).
We can't remember where this barn is... we'll have to ask Gigi (Nick's Gramma).
Painted with oil pastels on rag board primed with Colourfix primer in Terracotta. Size is 9" x 12." Pictures are taken in-progress. Top photo is after the color laid was laid down and blended with colour shapers and ResNGel. See a Res-N-Gel tutorial.
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Middle photo has more detail and texture laid in, the highlights in the bushes and grasses are established.
Bottom has yet more detail, work on the barn itself, and shading on hills in background.
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I'll let this dry and the pastel harden for a day or two before I work on it again. Stay tuned!
Way good... Vermont is amazing.. Northern VT (Stowe area) is tremendous - especially in fall and summer. Lots of barns and amazing dirt roads with fall color in abundance draping over the roads... Nice job.. Advice from an artist friend of mine - don't overwork it.. She said it's hard for artists to know when something is done sometimes... This looks fabulous. (Although the name says Randy - it's me - Mary
ReplyDeleteI love old barns and this is coming alng wonderfully. My sister lives in northern Vermont and when we visit we also pass all these wonderful old barns...
ReplyDeleteThanks Mary! I have a hard time stopping and not getting too "blendy." I almost like the first picture best in the series of 3 progress pictures. I need to work on being more loose and letting the marks show in the finished product!
ReplyDelete@ Patricia... thank you! Not sure where this one will end up, but working on barns just makes me happy! Vermont is so beautiful. I have done some other scenes a while back from Vermont (see my portfolio for the other barn/silo and covered bridge!).