House work...
I’m spending the day doing some house/studio cleaning. Right now bread is baking in the oven and as soon as that’s ready I’m headed back to the studio to start painting. I’ve been struggling a bit in the studio these days. I did some plein air painting recently, which felt great, but I’m having a tough time keeping that momentum when I get inside.
The painting above is an 8×10 painting of some trees in my backyard just before sunset. I’m really enjoying these snow paintings.
Here’s a fun quote from Delacroix about how excited he was by the helpfulness of photography in studying nature: “How I regret that such a wonderful invention arrived so late, I mean as far as I am concerned! The possibility of studying such results would have had an influence on me which I can only imagine by the usefulness which they still have for me, even with the little time that I can give to serious study. They are palpable demonstrations of the free design of nature, of which we have hitherto had only very imperfect ideas.” Quoted from the book “The Painter and the Photograph.”
Posted on Monday February 1, 2010 | 2 Comments
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Ah, I love painting snow! The colors of the shadows are incredible. Being in San Francisco, I’m not in it like you, but hope to make it The Sierras this winter. Beautiful work.
so simple and so complete. The streaks of yellow are right on. It feels COLD!