Next Step on Unnamed Winter Day

Okay. The painting was just too black and white. I liked the simplicity and the forms, the emptiness of the lower half and upper third, also the feeling of the day and weather. BUT too much of the same, so I added a dark green to the two forested mountains in the foreground. Here it is.

Unnamed Winter Day, Version 2, McCauley 40 x 30

The greens here are not quite what they are in the painting. They are a lighter green here, but when I tried to show them as they are in the painting, they looked too much like the first version. At any rate, I also had painted in some parchment white in the snowy fields of the foreground with the idea of providing some contrast.This did not work at all, so I overpainted it with pure titanium white.  Also this version is overall greyer than the painting. There is a lot more white in the whole piece than what this image shows.

Now I feel the forested hills are too strongly painted and will add a white wash over them to soften and distance them. I believe that will probably do it. I want the atmosphere of a cloudy, somewhat misty, winter day, the kind you can dream in.

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Back to Painting

I started my third mountain painting today, a wintry one, since we have been inundated with constant snow for about two weeks now. (If you would like to see the first two, visit our gallery blog–cardonahinegallery.wordpress.com.) So far it consists of different tones of greys and whites. Even so, it captures the feeling of the winter up here, the mountains that almost disapppear into the sky at times. And most times they do disappear into the snow filled clouds that descend over them. I will probably add some dark greens to the lower slopes covered with evergreens, but right now it is a very simple painting. A good beginning. But only that. Perhaps with this one, I can share the process as I go along. We will see how it goes.

Unnamed Winter Day

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Guilt, guilt, guilt

Well I have never claimed to be a good correspondent, but I guess I thought I might be better than this!

I am, however, writing now pretty often on our gallery blog. To read of us, both Alvaro and me, the gallery, our work, news, et cetera, please go to www.cardonahinegallery.com and click on the Gallery Blog icon on the right side of the site pages.

I have started a new series of mountain paintings which I have written about there. I would love you to see the two new pieces I have done and which I have posted there. I will occasionally write here when it is something I really want to say about just me. How narcissistic eh?

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