September 28, 2007 by Carrie L. Lewis.

Landscape Study #272 2007

After a missed day of aceo painting, I painted three today. Landscape Study 272 2007 is the first of those three and is pretty representative of the group.

I used similar colors to paint each of them, sometimes working assembly line style to paint all three skies, then all three horizons, then block in each of the individual landscapes.

They are not exactly a set, but they do definitely bear a ‘family resemblance’!

3-1/2″ x 2-1/2″
Original oil on triple-gessoed Crescent museum quality mat board

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September 26, 2007 by Carrie L. Lewis.

Landscape Study #271 2007

Landscape Study 271 2007 is another example of making good use of small pieces of cut canvas!

Not so very long ago, I purchased a cut piece of Artfix L21C oil primed Belgian linen canvas. I was looking for ways to upgrade my supply list and the Artfix canvas came very highly recommended. I stretched four canvases of varying sizes and had several leftover pieces, including a handful of aceo sized pieces and three or four 4×6 pieces.

This is one of the aceo sized pieces of Artfix.

As of the completion of this painting, I have completed two larger paintings, two two others in progress and have also painted two or three aceos. In all cases, this canvas is an excellent surface to work with and pure pleasure to put paint on!

3-1/2″ x 2-1/2″
Original oil on oil primed ArtFix L21C Belgian Linen Canvas

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September 25, 2007 by Carrie L. Lewis.

Landscape Study #269 2007

Lots of things going today. As sometimes happens, most of it was not painting and only a small part of it was related to painting.

One the art-related things I did was send in my entry fee to reserve my spot in a big show this coming April. I will probably not know for a couple more days whether or not I will make the cut, since space is limited and is reserved on a first-come, first-serve basis. I learned of this show fairly late, but thought it worth while to make the effort. It is now in the LORD’s hands, so I will wait.

So I followed up that aceo landscape with a larger landscape using the same colors. All I managed to finish was the sky, but it looks very exciting and it will be difficult to wait for the layers of paint to dry so that I can continue working on this larger landscape painting.

3-1/2″ x 2-1/2″
Original oil on triple gessoed Crescent museum quality mat board

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September 22, 2007 by Carrie L. Lewis.

Landscape Study #268 2007

Back to one of my favorite themes; water, trees and sky.

As difficult as it can be to get good, natural looking greens, it can be doubly difficult to accurately paint water.
One of the methods I use to teach myself is to return to familiar compositional designs and try different color combinations and/or color application techniques.

This particular scene, for example, has been painted several times over the course of the last several months, but no two of them look alike. Some have been very dark and lush. Others have been more subdued. This one definitely reflects the altered light and fading colors of late summer.

3-1/2″ x 2-1/2″
Original oil on triple gessoed Crescent museum quality mat board

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September 21, 2007 by Carrie L. Lewis.

Landscape Study #267 2007

This landscape painting was developed in a rather leisurely manner. A peaceful painting for a peaceful day, I suppose.

I have been only partially satisfied with the nature of my greens most of the time so I toned them down quite a bit with Titanium White and Azo Yellow just to see what would happen.

The result makes me think of the Flint Hills in the middle of summer, after the spring rains have ‘worn off’ but before the grasses all turn that familiar shade of pale green/brown!

Those slanting shadows are neat, though!

3-1/2″ x 2-1/2″
Original oil on oil primed Artfix L21C Belgian linen canvas

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September 20, 2007 by Carrie L. Lewis.

Landscape Study #266 2007

Because this card support was trimmed from the remnants of a cut piece of canvas, it has an uneven edge. You can see the slightly concave line of the top edge in this photo.

If you prefer, the edge may be trimmed or it is available as is.

For support, the canvas has been mounted on archival mat board. I used acrylic gloss glazing medium to ‘glue’ the canvas to the card, but the canvas can be easily removed if desired.

3-1/2″ x 2-1/2″
Original oil on oil primed Artfix Belgian Linen Canvas.

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September 19, 2007 by Carrie L. Lewis.

Landscape Study #265 2007

3-1/2″ x 2-1/2″
Original oil on triple gessoed Crescent museum quality mat board

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September 18, 2007 by Carrie L. Lewis.

Landscape Study #264 2007

I have observed that a lot of the trees I have been painting have been much too dense. The trees I see in the countryside show a lot more of their trunks and branches, especially in the strong light in the morning and late afternoons.

So I decided to see what I could do to duplicate that look in paint.

The first step was painting in everything I wanted. Sky, grass, trees, light and shadow.

Then I used my color shaper to remove the paint where I wanted trunks and branches. I have used this technique to make grass before and with good results. It worked equally well to suggest the trunks of these trees.

3-1/2″ x 2-1/2″
Original oil on triple gessoed Crescent museum quality mat board

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September 17, 2007 by Carrie L. Lewis.

Landscape Study #263 2007

Although this aceo landscape was cut from the same batch of Crescent museum quality mat board as a good number of others, it is one of only two or three that has the very unique feature of a ‘raw paper’ edge. I do not know quite how this happens on mat board, but it did.

When I painted this card, my thought was to trim off the excess. But I liked the unique look of it so much, I decided to leave it.

The rough edge can be trimmed if you prefer.

3-1/2″ x 2-1/2″
Original oil on triple gessoed Crescent museum quality mat board

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September 14, 2007 by Carrie L. Lewis.

On The Move

12″ by 9″ Oil on Artfix Belgian Linen Canvas

On The Move is another painting headed for the Carriage Factory Gallery in October. Unlike the painting I shared yesterday, this one is based on an actual location and it was composed with horses included. It is a Flint Hills scene based on a photograph taken earlier this summer.

The subject of this composition is intended to be the sky, which I have emphasized by replacing the rather flat, light gray clouds in the photograph with more clearly defined clouds with a wider value range.

But the landscape is also wanting attention, a factor that developed as I rubbed layers of Raw Sienna and Sap Green alternately in and random patterns. When I worked on the painting last night, I was quite surprised at the way the hills were shaping up. They bear only a token resemblance to the original photograph.

At this stage, the sky is finished and the landscape is about half complete. I will finish the hills, then paint the horses and decide what other tweaking it may need.

Colors used in the sky are Cerulean Blue and Titanium White in the clear portions and Cerulean Blue, Alizarin Crimson and white it the clouds.

The distant ridge line is mostly the same gray-blue mixture used in the clouds with a hint of Sap Green added. gradually warmed and darkened the colors as I moved forward, ridge to ridge.

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