River Rink (Maura and Pat)
oil, 5 x 7"
NFS
This painting began as an iPhone snapshot of
Husband and Daughter enjoying a happy night of ice skating under the lights of the Ben Franklin Bridge.
To begin this painting I cropped my the photo to the same proportion as my canvas, in this case 5 x 7”. I use a grid feature to make sure my composition more or less comports with the Rule of Thirds.
To begin this painting I cropped my the photo to the same proportion as my canvas, in this case 5 x 7”. I use a grid feature to make sure my composition more or less comports with the Rule of Thirds.
I began with an under painting of raw sienna to give a nice
glow to the ice. I filled in some of the
background figures with a darker value of raw sienna and wiped out along the
ice. I added the darks, burnt umber,
French ultramarine and black, to the night sky and the foreground figures. As I stood back, I noticed the pretty glow the under painting of raw sienna gives the skater figures on the
right. They almost have the feel of a
watercolor. Should I worry them with
detail? No! Do they convey all of the
information the viewer needs as they are?
Yes!
It sometimes takes a heck of a lot of self-restraint not to go in for the
kill and worry every last element with detail.
Thanks for looking!
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