Duet- 9" x 12"- Acrylic on canvas board
Today's theme on Illustration Friday is Duet. Those who follow this blog may have noticed that I usually try to come up with a clever way to shoehorn one of my pieces to fit the theme, but today was a no brainer. I painted a picture a few years back as a demo for an acrylic workshop which I actually titled "Duet". The workshop was hosted by the Utah Watercolor Society and since I work primarily in a water based medium (though not traditional transparent watercolor), I was asked to teach a three day class. I did two demonstrations during the workshop, one of which dealt with creating a landscape in acrylic. I showed some techniques that I use including glazing with mediums, dry brushing, and even using crackle mediums (evident at the lower left corner). I did not complete the painting during the session but finished it later on. There is a long tradition of using musical terminology to title paintings. When it came time to choose a title, "Duet" seemed appropriate given the two hay bales. I sold the painting a few weeks later to a private collector.
9 comments:
This is beautiful. Very Van Gogh. I love it, and I'm now following your blog.
Terrific :)
Beautiful painting. I love the light, and the golden shagginess of the bales.
This is amazing - I also love your bio, you've a lot to thank Santa for
Beautiful Greg! Love the golden sunshine and the shadows. Now if they could only sing :o) They'd probably start of with "HAY Girl"
Beautiful piece!
Such a gorgeous rendering of a classic scene.
You do really great work.
I hate to sound stupid but here goes.
In the Seagull photoshop image are you using just the brush tool?
Scott, When I work in Photoshop, I use a combination of scanned sketches to start with and a limited amount of scanned textures at the finish, but everything in between is using the brush tools and manipulating layers and things to get what I want.The finish is pretty much all digital brushwork with almost none of the sketch still showing. It's been a process to learn the program and I am still feeling my way a bit. I am sure there is still tons to learn about what the program can do.
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