Archive for August, 2007
Detail of tidal flats
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007I did some research to find out exactly what this bird is – but I have forgotten again. I think it is a type of heron but I’m really not too worried. It is strategically placed to help set the scale of the grasses.
Left-hand Foreground continued development
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007The sun is brought out a bit more with the addition of some warmer highlights and cooler shadow tones. The foreground bushes get some work, including some ‘shiny’ leaves.
Left-hand Foreground
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Right-hand Foreground
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Moving forward a lot of emphasis now includes the accurate placing of shadows and highlights. The establishment of the sun’s position in the landscape’s sky is an important part of creating the illusion of three dimensions. With a painting this large various parts of the painting show shadows and highlights in different positions. In this [...]
Right-hand Mid-Ground
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Some more detail is painted in: rocks and driftwood get blocked in. Scale and perspective are more important than form at this stage because everything forward of the mountains must work convincingly to make the flat canvas look like it is 3D and the water lying flat.
Middle distance left and right
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007The initial background tree colour was applied with a filbert brush.
Starting on the foreground
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007I blocked in a thin under-coat of a neutral-to-warm brown to most of the foreground of the painting .
Paul Cato is still a living artist!
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007My apologies to all those who have wondered if I had disappeared or died whilst working on this big painting. I have had several emails and even phone-calls from people who are wondering what’s happening and asking when I am going to update the website. It seems that there are a lot of people watching [...]