This posting is about the painting i’ve been working on in my Monday class for the past few weeks. It’s from a photo Norma took while on her adventure in the Lofoten Islands this past July. You can see the reference photo below (it will be tothe right of my painting photo — obviously!).
So i used a 9″ x 12″ canvas. Would much preferred to use much larger one, but as i think i’ve mentioned before, this teacher wants me to use small ones. I changed the composition just a little. As of last week teacher declared the work finished. I didn’t argue, but it certainly does not look at all finished. So i will continue to work on it at home. The paint layers are too thin; the fence posts never made it in to the painting; (i had painted over them and then forgot about them!) and the colors, except for the sky and clouds, are not very pleasing to me. that said, i am pleased with the overall shapes and the color contrasts. I’ll see what i can do to make the overall painting more vibrant!
LJ and NJ 