Monday, September 29, 2008

New Commission Piece



 
Back in July/August I met a nice lady that ended up commissioning me to do a new piece for her interior design client. I was honored! Immediately I built the wood panel from scratch. I have been tackling with paint little by little every week. I am taking this one a bit slower so that I can focus. I chose not to use drying medium this time so the paint is taking forever to dry! So long, in fact, that I am way over due! I feel awful! I really under estimated the timeline on this one... 

So even though I am farther along than these photos represent above, I thought it would be fun to post the in progress work from the beginning. Meanwhile, my painting is drying. Tomorrow I will continue to work on it and in the end I will probably throw together a slide show about it.
Kind of an extra bonus for the client to be able to see the birth of their new artwork! 

These beginning stages are very important to me. I wash in my darker undertone. This time I used my famous "Saparindian" concoction with raw umber and quinacridone gold. Then I literally wipe out all my white areas to reveal the shapes of the long twisted tree branches. So I rely heavily on my ability to see negative and positive shapes, adding and subtracting paint as I go. 

This wipe out method is a great way to "sketch" in oil... once it is dry, color is the next step.

4 comments:

Arco Scheepen said...

Lovely painting so far! I have started to use the wipe-out method too far starting a painting.
Please keep showing the progress on this painting!
Cheers,
Arco

IstvanBloggin' said...

Great blog! I like your landscapes very much.

Sylvia Jenstad said...

Love this painting... wow ... really cool

Jennifer Phillips said...

Thanks everyone!

Arco - post some of your wipe out paintings! I really like your bird sketch too. And the texturing on your recent landscape painting!