Over the past week at home I worked on two things: the red boat house, and the water-which-is-in-shadow. So with the boat house I worked on getting a better color for the roof and for the sides, and also tried to get the door to look more like a door. I wanted more contrast between roof and sides, and also wanted to begin to make the roof look a little more “used”.
With the water in the lower right side of the painting I worked on getting better angles for the ripples and trying to get a color that would work.
Today in class I continued work on the water. So dark water in both the right and left lower part of the painting needed to look like they had some texture and some movement — but not too much of either. I knocked down the texture I’d painted on at home and worked on getting the movement of the waves better aligned.
During the week the more I looked at the texture I’d gotten with the palette knife the less I liked it. I had pretty much decided to scrape most of it off but thought I’d run that idea by teacher, who was fine with that plan. So I scraped away enough of that over-the-top texture and tried to tone it down while still keeping the image of water.
Last thing I did today was re-paint the boat. The upshot of this activity is that I’m going to have to repaint it again! Lost the motor when I enlarged the boat (when I was trying to fix the angles at the back of the boat. And the colors don’t work the way I had hoped. After it dries, in a couple of days, I’ll give it another try.
LJ and NJ 