Acrylic on Canvas Board 18" x 24"
This is my latest painting. I am going to set it aside for now - I'm probably done with it, but I want to get some distance from it before making a final decision.
I work in watercolor, oil, and acrylic in addition to charcoal. In most cases, I don't decide on what medium to paint with prior to discovering a subject. In this case, I decided to paint an acrylic before choosing a subject. I hadn't painted an acrylic or a larger subject in quite awhile. I decided to pursue another interpretation of my last on location painting.
I also wanted to experiment again with a toned canvas again. The few times I've done this in the past, it definitely helped create a stronger sense of color harmony and tied the pictures together.
In the past I've tried ochre's or sienna's. In this case I decided to utilize ultramarine blue as a base tone. As I was covering the canvas, I added more intensity to the ultramarine toward the bottom of the canvas to try to add a sense of weight and substance to the foreground and a sense of space and atmosphere to the sky.
Acrylics dry so quickly that I was able to start working on the subject without delay. Below is a photo of the first few passes at the background of the painting.
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