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Big painting progress 2
By Paul Cato | May 11, 2007
Well, I’m trying to keep up with the picture processing but I am still behind in getting them off the camera. I am using a flash on my 6 Megapixel Fuji to get the photography done quickly but the wet paint reflects like a thousand tiny mirrors from the weave and texture of the canvas.
The first in this section shows the sky painted in entirely. The client specifically asked for a clear sky. There are two main blends – from top to bottom, and from left to right. There are three basic blues plus a heap of white in the mix. I know it looks like it might be pretty quick to do, but this sky took almost a full day to paint. Maybe I’m just slow, but it would have been easier to do a few clouds (although not any quicker). I began with a 1 1/2 inch brush which is bigger than I normally would use because of the large size of this painting but I finished up in the end with a four inch bristle brush to move the paint around and achieve the blending. (I’m sure my brushes wore down about 1/4″ each on that sky!) I finished off with a very soft, wide badger-hair blending brush.
Next the distant Mount Pembroke and it’s snow-covered glacier in the background, with a mountain called “The Elephant” on the left side. I’m working from distant to near.
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