Painting at Rock City Gardens

The group went down to Rock City Gardens to paint, and it gets better every time we are there. They add more and more to it, and their plants, pots and fountains are wonderful.

The path above was the subject for my painting, but I was sitting at the other end. I will post it at a future date. 

Carmen

The Kayakers, 16x20 Original Oil Painting by Carmen Beecher

Just finished this commission. I made a little slideshow of my work in progress. In retrospect I wish I had cropped it, but I'm now too lazy (busy) to redo it. To view the slideshow, which is very short, click on our Pieces of 8 Facebook page at right.

Carmen

Work in Progress by Carmen Beecher

I am working on a commission, doing a larger painting of my small work The Kayakers, and I thought I would post the beginning of the painting. When Grandma Moses was asked about her process and how she painted, she responded "I paint down. I start at the top and paint down." As for me, sometimes I sort of "paint down" if it's a landscape, but in this case I started with the principal subject and I'm painting out. 

Since I have painted this subject before, I know what I am aiming for and I know the colors, values and so on, so I concentrated my energy on the most important part of the painting first. Below is the 6x6-inch original small painting of the happy kayakers. It's a square format, but the large one will be a rectangular format and, of course, more detailed.

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