Designing The Landscape

I learned a great deal from John Poon about using good design principles in a landscape painting. I have not had the opportunity to continue on this painting since I first began it in the workshop. I am looking forward to working on it and putting into practice more of the things emphasized in John's lectures.
Must go now, sleeping grand-baby is waking up!

Larger Landscape

11 x14" acrylic on Raymar Panel, unfinished landscape with clouds

I find it hard to believe that I have never tried painting clouds until now. I consider them to be a real challenge and I did get lots of help from John Poon in the workshop.  Now I want to practice painting more skies so I can really learn how to make them look natural.

I also realized that I have not painted many scenes like this with mountains, sky, trees, and land. I love painting them but I still have much to learn. I still want to adjust some of the values.
I will be spending the week with my grandkids so there may not be much painting and posting time-we'll see.

On My Easel

This is a painting that I did last week in the workshop with John Poon. I had such fun painting this with all the landscape elements in this scene. It is not yet finished and I plan to do some more work on it.

I used acrylics the entire week and I am still learning how best to use them.

John is an excellent teacher and gave great lectures with slides every day that were chock full of helpful information about painting the landscape. Now I want to spend the next couple of months working outdoors and from  carefully considered photos.

I hope you are having a great week-end, more paintings soon.

Painting on Bald Head Island

Today I had the pleasure of taking a class with North Carolina landscape artist Joanne Geisel.

Some of you may know that I'm spending the week on Bald Head Island painting during the U.S. Open in my home town of Pinehurst.

I signed up for a class which was held at All About Art Gallery on the island. Joanne is an excellent teacher and it was fun learning her process for the beautiful paintings she produces. Here is a link to her website.

We painted from Joanne's wonderful photos which she generously let us use.

I took a few photos of Joanne's demo to show you some of the steps.

Here's the underpainting with raw umber.

Covering the three unequal masses in the landscape

Continuing to add color with large brush

Our wonderful teacher with completed painting.

We had fun! Tomorrow I will show you my painting.

Cool Spot For Painting

Camden Afternoon, 5 x 7 " oil on panel, ©2013, Fay Terry

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While I was in Camden, Maine, I walked to the top of Mount Battie one morning to look down at the view of Camden Harbor. It was beautiful but shrouded in a light fog and it was very cold. I decided not to set up my easel and paint.  After lunch, the sun came out and I found this pretty area just south of town on the way to Rockland. The shadows on the sand were particularly nice and the lush foliage made the whole scene soft and summery.

Below is a photo of Camden Harbor (as seen without the fog) from Mount Battie.