Oil on 5x7 archival canvas panel.I have mixed feelings about this painting. At the moment, I feel there's room for a ton of improvement. Yet on the other hand, I feel it's completely successful....I think it needs to be understated and a monochromatic blue in order to put the mist across...I have seen similar scenes in person and I'm always taken by the mystical quality...how a deer will suddenly appear as if by magic and you have to blink to make sure your eyes aren't playing tricks on you...your heart pounds...there's a definite excitement. Maybe that's where I feel a little let down....there's a lack of excitement in the painting.
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I like it. It does feel like the deer appeared out of the mist like they do.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mary.
ReplyDeleteHi Dean,
ReplyDeleteI like it, too, just the way it is, lovely! I just read from David Liefel's book that you can make an object appear lighter by just lightening the background area around it, like a halo. Let me know if you try it on this or another painting. If the painting is dry, you can always try it and wipe it off if you don't. A trick I use is to lay acetate over a painting and paint on that. Great way to try a really drastic change. Robert Bateman uses a roller and thinned white paint rolls a "fog, mist, snow)over the painting then goes back in and brings out necessary details. Works to knock back a too-prominent area in a background, too.