thanks for taking the time to do these posts. you have made a positive impact on the way i'll attack blockins from now on. what i like best about this new (for me) method is the ability to compare color, value, and saturation issues seperate from the mark making ones. thanks dude.keep up the great blog!
Wow, this is beautiful. The way the yellow flowers are represented is so effective. Luminous color and luscious paint application, and I especially love the great detail shots. As Mike said, thanks so much for doing these posts, I learn so much each time.
Great post, Frank. It's fun and instructive to see the photos and to see what kind of editing takes place in the final painting. Nice atmosphere and spontaneous character in this painting.
FRank--I'm following these posts closely. It's like getting a whole other workshop. I've approached my recent work like this--even though it's in the studio. But it's good practice for when we can get outside. These last two or three of yours also demonstrate how to "see" a painting from relatively bland settings. But then you have all that gorgeous color down there! Post more...
keep meaning to ask you what that tiny spot of dark color i keep seeing up in the far right corner of the palette is? its in all the palette shots. also looks like youre using split primary yellow and red... only one blue? any reason. most (including me- being at the beach i need warm and cool blues quick) that use split primary still use two or more blues (some i know use 4 blues including turquoise). still picking your brain! it never ends does it LOL thanks my friend...
Thanks Don, I really appreciate that you've been checking these out and enjoying them. I had hoped that showing the photo of the scene and how I edited it would be interesting.
Hi Jack. Thanks for checking in. Gorgeous, but subtle color, yes. But down there by the lake is about the only spot right now to get these yellows and greens. I've got an interesting one that I'm working on now. I hope to get it up tonight.
Mike B., it is great to see you back amigo. Thanks for diggin around in here and taking the time to comment. I know you are busy. Things are great here. How 'bout you?
Mike R., that tiny dark spot? That's a secret. I guess I should explain my palette sometime for those of you who don't know why I use what I do. It is my phthalo blue. I keep it up there because it is sneaky and gets into everything if I'm not careful. It is my blue that has yellow in it and the ultramarine is my blue that has red in it. I'll explain the colors in a future post. Thanks for asking.
Hi Eric, good to hear from you. Thanks for picking up on the abstract feeling in some of these looser ones. I appreciate you thoughts.
April 3, 2008 at 4:47 PM
Here is one more painting using a pre mixed palette of colors. This painting is from last Friday when I went painting with my friend Guy Corriero. I painted from a spot that was slightly elevated from where I shot this photo. That way I could get the receding fields read as larger shapes.
[Image] I focused on the stacks and middle trees and moved elements from the edges inwards for a better design on my 6x8 panel.
[Image] I sketched this design lightly with vine charcoal, then mixed.
[Image] A close up of the palette. The color of the yellow flowers is missing from this shot. That blue-gray pile near my cad. red and yellow was a missed attempt, but I later used it in other mixes.
[Image] With time to think about it, I changed my design a bit. Less foreground and moved it all to the right and a bit closer.
[Image] The finished piece. "Fields and Yellow Flowers", 6" x 8" oil on board, 2008 Private Collection
I was happy with the result. There is a chance that I might paint a larger piece from this. I have a few ideas how I would change things just a bit, but I don't want to mess with this one and lose the freshness and spontaneity of the painting. I've learned that the hard way. I always think that I can just "fix" a few things, but almost every time I wish that I had left it alone.
posted by Frank Gardner at 11:17 PM on Apr 1, 2008
""Fields and Yellow Flowers""
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Hi Frank- I love seeing the finish compared to the actual scene. Thanks for sharing.
It's so hard not to keep tweaking things! How many times have I banged my head against that wall...
April 2, 2008 at 3:40 AM
Love the freshness and spontaneity!
Highly informative...
Thanks for the great post!
April 2, 2008 at 7:01 AM
Hi Jennifer. Oh, I hate when I over work a piece, I always feel so stupid.
April 2, 2008 at 8:55 AM
Thanks Dean! I appreciate your feedback on these posts.
April 2, 2008 at 8:57 AM
thanks for taking the time to do these posts. you have made a positive impact on the way i'll attack blockins from now on. what i like best about this new (for me) method is the ability to compare color, value, and saturation issues seperate from the mark making ones. thanks dude.keep up the great blog!
April 2, 2008 at 11:35 AM
simple but all there, succinctly...economically, aesthetically represented!!
well done
April 2, 2008 at 1:12 PM
My pleasure Mike. I learn something myself from having to gather it all together into words that make sense to others.
April 2, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Thanks Larry, I appreciate your choice of words.
April 2, 2008 at 4:18 PM
It's a lovely painting!
Arlene,
Lakewood florist
April 2, 2008 at 6:35 PM
Wow, this is beautiful. The way the yellow flowers are represented is so effective. Luminous color and luscious paint application, and I especially love the great detail shots. As Mike said, thanks so much for doing these posts, I learn so much each time.
April 2, 2008 at 8:47 PM
Thanks Arlene!
April 2, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Thanks a lot Kathryn.
I've picked my five random colors. This will be a real challenge. They were stashed away in my paint box for a reason.
April 2, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Great post, Frank. It's fun and instructive to see the photos and to see what kind of editing takes place in the final painting. Nice atmosphere and spontaneous character in this painting.
April 3, 2008 at 2:46 AM
FRank--I'm following these posts closely. It's like getting a whole other workshop. I've approached my recent work like this--even though it's in the studio. But it's good practice for when we can get outside. These last two or three of yours also demonstrate how to "see" a painting from relatively bland settings. But then you have all that gorgeous color down there! Post more...
April 3, 2008 at 7:42 AM
Hey Bud!! Just wanted you to know that I am pokin around in here and lovin' what I am seein'
Sure do miss prowling around in the blogs, but right now time is just scarce. I'll be back soon.
Hope all's well w you!
April 3, 2008 at 9:45 AM
frank
keep meaning to ask you what that tiny spot of dark color i keep seeing up in the far right corner of the palette is? its in all the palette shots.
also looks like youre using split primary yellow and red... only one blue? any reason. most (including me- being at the beach i need warm and cool blues quick) that use split primary still use two or more blues (some i know use 4 blues including turquoise).
still picking your brain! it never ends does it LOL thanks my friend...
April 3, 2008 at 11:26 AM
Really wonderful.
I love it when your abstract sensabilities show through in your figurative work. You have an amazing sense of pattern and colour.
April 3, 2008 at 2:33 PM
Thanks Don, I really appreciate that you've been checking these out and enjoying them.
I had hoped that showing the photo of the scene and how I edited it would be interesting.
April 3, 2008 at 4:32 PM
Hi Jack. Thanks for checking in.
Gorgeous, but subtle color, yes. But down there by the lake is about the only spot right now to get these yellows and greens.
I've got an interesting one that I'm working on now. I hope to get it up tonight.
April 3, 2008 at 4:35 PM
Mike B., it is great to see you back amigo.
Thanks for diggin around in here and taking the time to comment. I know you are busy.
Things are great here. How 'bout you?
April 3, 2008 at 4:38 PM
Mike R., that tiny dark spot?
That's a secret.
I guess I should explain my palette sometime for those of you who don't know why I use what I do.
It is my phthalo blue.
I keep it up there because it is sneaky and gets into everything if I'm not careful. It is my blue that has yellow in it and the ultramarine is my blue that has red in it. I'll explain the colors in a future post.
Thanks for asking.
April 3, 2008 at 4:45 PM
Hi Eric, good to hear from you.
Thanks for picking up on the abstract feeling in some of these looser ones. I appreciate you thoughts.
April 3, 2008 at 4:47 PM