This is my first post on Norma’s and my new joint (“shared”) site. I plan to post art/painting updates here, as I have been doing on “blog of Judy A”. I will redirect those of you who have been following my other blog, and hope it is a smooth transition for all.
With that said, back to my Cinque Terre painting. This week I worked some more on the hillsides. Also added a little yellow to one of the flat areas to indicate some sunlight perhaps in that area. I decided that the lower front area would be grasses, rather than the somewhat distracting bushes in the original photo. I used a fan brush with a kind of upward flicking motion to create the effect of different colored grasses. I did some adjusting of the hue of the water that is close to the shoreline, making the shade darker to indicate how I think the water would look. I’m feeling pretty done with this one (as I said in my last post), EXCEPT that I’ve decided, after some deliberating, to add in the little white boat that is in the original photo. I’ll do that this week after the “water” I painted yesterday is a bit more dry.
LJ and NJ 