Beginning a new painting — this one based on a photo Norma took on her recent photographic adventures in Norway. I”m calling it the Red Boat House, and I’m getting instruction in this one in my “regular” Thursday class. So, starting in last week’s class and continuing during this past week, I tried to do an initial drawing. It took me a long time, mainly because the photo dimensions are something like 9″ x 18″ (I’m guessing – don’t have all the information in front of me.). Anyhow, my canvas is 18″ x 30″. So I had to do a lot of figuring how I was going to address the canvas. If I could have found a canvas in which the horizontal dimension was twice the length of the vertical, I would have bought it. But the one I bought was the closest I could find.
So — today I brought in the drawing. Teacher fussed with it a little and then I finally started mixing paints to see how I was going to do sky and clouds. The plan is to cover the sky area with various shades of blue and gray and then layer on the clouds. All I got done today was to do the first layer for the sky.
I include below my beginning effort as well as the reference photo.
LJ and NJ 