On the weekend we did a little road trip and stopped in my FAVOURITE GALLERY IN ALBERTA! The
Blue Rock Gallery in Black Diamond, Alberta is small and gorgeous. A great mix of pottery, paintings, arts and crafts, books. The paintings are fa-bu-lous. It is worth a day trip to hang out in this little town for a couple hours, great milk shakes across the street.
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| 14x36 oil on wood panel |
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| 6x24 oil on canvas |
Today I had a few short hours to work on a second version of the Cypress Hills. The bottom one was a small quick study. The second top one is much bigger and I am trying to do brighter colours / impressionist style. It is not done but here's what needs completing:
- foreground is getting finer detail in the grasses - more greens, blues and purples to be added.
- foreground shape is not random enough - repeating on left and right side, needs to be more like the bottom foreground shape.
- far background needs darker, grey green / blue colours
- some more red thrown into trees in middle ground
I am hoping it works out, it looks much better in person than with my quick photo, so I shall continue with it tomorrow.
