Friday 22 November 2019

Start to finish

A little blurb on the painting progression for 'The Royal', 20 x 20" oil on canvas.

My photo reference I took, with the hubster, child and dog baby in foreground.  I saturated the colours in my photo editing as much as possible
Toned the canvas with orange acrylic wash

Gridded the canvas and started my drawing (long process!)

Laid in the large areas of sky and mountains - boosted the size of the mountain

Changing a few things along the way - eventually I got rid of the high power lines and the mural as they were distracting my eye  too much

Nearing the finish.  In the completed version I got rid of most of the cars, the mura,l a few power poles, added some power lines where I liked them.