Sepowet Marsh #1, 18″ x 18″, Lux Archival

Clouds completed

Begining greens and field

I completed another painting today.  It’s hot and this is all I really want to do (along with playing the piano).  And I really want to capture these paintings soon after being there and before other trips and changes of season make them less appealing.  And besides–i”m having a really good time!

This is based on two of the many cloud pictures I took at Sepowet Marsh in Tiverton, RI on the first Sunday of our trip.  The rain cleared out leaving sunny skies and wonderful clouds.  I expect to do one or two more.  The best thing about rain is that when it clears up the clouds are fanstastic!

I did this painting on Lux Archival and it was a joy to do, particularly compared with the last one!  It’s almost all Blue Earth and Girault, like the others, with a few Ludwigs in the sky.  I started using primarily violets in the clouds and it looked two one-dimensional.  I added greens and blues to them and it was so much better.

The greenery was painted in a way similar to the Bantam River picture and it worked nicely. I put a lot of Blue Earth violet into it and a small pieces of Eggplant.

For the grasses, I began with a magenta, then an orange, then a lighter orange and pink.  The photo looks too orange.  The painting has more of the violety magenta which ties it to the violets in the clouds.

The foreground came from a different photo.  I felt it needed something more and I’m happy with it.  I’m not sure it’s completely done (the turquoise piece in the sky at left is bothering me!)  But it’s close.