The photograph really does not do justice to the overall atmosphere of this painting
Both images are 8″ x 12″
300lb Arches cold press
with Sennelier watercolor
Both are painted with photo reference taken at the Central Park, NY…
However, they were done with different methods. This first one is additive layering(not sure if there is such term…), I painted the lighter background and gradually added darker foreground. The second one on the other hand is sort of painted intuitively…I painted the foreground and background at the same time with dripping paints on wet surface, and the space left over without paints become the lightest reflection on the painting; after that I added the branches and then some final touches for the shadow.
These are the 3 recent paintings…
I thought I did a good job on the sun-setting atmosphere at the Central Park on the first painting; it’s not so hard to capture the feeling of the light background with the shadowed foreground, because all I have to do in this case is to paint the dark foreground on top of the light background…what is really hard is to paint the shinning foliage against a dark background, which I haven’t figured out a good way to do it…
All of them are available
Last week I went to Metropolitan Museum and saw some really amazing detailed paintings by ancient masters….their paintings allow viewers to gaze for a long time and still discovering “new places” on the landscape…this experience inspired me to be even more focused on the details of my landscape watercolor…I find I start using some of the tiniest brushes to paint; in the past I seldom picked up those tiny brushes….
This one is a bit smaller…at 5.5″ x 8″
It’s up for bid on eBay.
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