Artist Studio
The secret here is to keep the edges in the distance soft by floating the shapes on top of one another when the paper is still wet and working cooler in the distance to warmer in the foreground. I let the lake accept the washes from the distant trees to indicate the reflections.
Today I am going to show a step by step demonstration of an oil painting I worked on today, I am sure that it is not finished but it has enough of the work completed that I can talk about it as if it is done. I used as my reference an oil painting I painted about a few months back and I was never very happy with it, although I have found a lot of people like it. I find it to be too clumsy and disjointed so I decided to try it again. The painting below is the first work and the one above is today’s piece.