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Aleta Karstad
2-d Nature Art |
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La Grande Chuet, Dumoine River
Here's me painting in July 2016 on the Dumoine River, Quebec, Canada. My umbrella of royal blue and white transmits a balanced light - they don't make them those colours any more! This one was found by my daughter at a yard sale.
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Underpainting
This is how I begin all of my plein air paintings - an underpainting of the right colour saves time by supporting every stroke with depth and contrast which is already there - like the air, and the depth of rock and water.
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major elements and movements
Painting fast at this stage, trying not to get too involved with detail, but every stroke is deliberate.
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painting the sky between the trees
... leaves some underpainting glowing through to support the trees, automatic 3-D effect. This step is magic! I've also indicated the main movements in the forewater.
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bold with the foreground
This is satisfying, and there's lots to do all over the painting, filling in and developing here and there.
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working with rocks and water
This is the time consuming stage of finishing up - solidifying the rock, and clarifying the water, working up areas where the underpainting is still too dominant.
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finished and signed!
I often find a few things to touch up during the process of photographing the "finished" piece. Viewing its image on the camera allows me a step back, another way of seeing it as a whole object, rather than as a story of the development of its parts. Looking at a painting's reflection in a mirror often helps too, as its reverse image can seem as if viewed for the first time.
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