I’m revisiting a more traditional painting technique, using stretched canvas. It’s the first time since high school that I’ve stretched my own canvas. I’m also working with a more traditional ratio of vertical to horizontal and not panorama this time. Here in these photos you see the progression so far on the painting.
Forms take shape, and lines start to have less of a flat look.
Adding shading starts to help me decide where the forms rest, and how to create believable depth. SCROLL DOWN.
Adding texture and more depth will allow for the next step of adding elemental reality, in this case water.
Now I'm able to start adding the depth of water, and its refractive light effects. I start getting very drawn into the piece now. I get to imagine the way the water would move over the rock forms. More to come!
One more day, This piece is really coming together…next step will be the element of REFLECTIVITY.
