Thursday, February 05, 2009

 

Winter Shoal


Winter Shoal, originally uploaded by Jeff..

I finally managed to finish this agonizing landscape which has been sitting on my easel for what feels like and probably has been months. What had me stuck was my uncertainty of how to finish it. The painting went through a number of transformations before it finally became this somewhat tranquil vista. The colors were once much more contrasting and stark but I went back in and reworked the tones to bring them all back inline with one another. The final additions that convinced me the painting may be finished was the layers of whitecaps and waves across the water and shore. This gave this somewhat static scene some movement and more interest at least to me.

Presently I'm working on sketches for a mountain landscape loosely based on Mt Sinai. Should prove to be a much more bold brilliant and active.


Comments:
Very nice, indeed. The photo really captures the textural depth. And I especially like the minor reduction in that depth along the line where the sand and water meet - adds a sense of image reflection to the overall work that would not typically be there due to the texture and technique.
 
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