Friday, January 18, 2019

View Over the Fields

I have exaggerated the colors, but it is still believable as a landscape.  I have applied the paint very thickly so that every stroke shows.  I put each stroke down and left it along, not blending or smoothing out anything.  I did however as this black and white photo shows try to avoid very many value changes.  There is a light and half-light, small amount of dark and a lot of half dark.  Too many value changes cause a painting to look choppy.  I keep a value chart by my easel and as I mix paint I check it against the chart in order to execute my value study.

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