Spent the past few days with White Dog Gallery in Whistler in a local event - Painting the Peaks. The first day I worked in oils and did four 8x10 oil sketches - two I will take home to see what comes of them and two I scrubbed.
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| Thumbnail and sketch with acrylic marker on linen |
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| Two 8x10 oils on linen with heavy palette knife work |
The next day I painted in acrylics. The light was off and on flat and the peaks a long way off so I sketched and painted the Whistler peaks as accurately as I could then pushed the colour and added different foregrounds from my imagination. Trying to project my view closer and to give the piece punch. It was not a day I would normally do plein air of this subject because of the light but this was an "event" I was in so I tried to make the best of it. Three one hour 11x14 sketches. I did one more but it is going to the burn pile.
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| Whistler Peak from White Dog gallery - a challenge to make interesting |
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| sketch with acrylic markers - on canvas 11x14 |
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| Underpainting |
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| sketch with foreground from imagination |
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| Second sketch |
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| Same peak new foreground from imagination |
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| Third sketch of peaks with a different foreground |
