painting on location

7/30/2019 Painting on Location

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It was to cold for me so I dropped down to my

favorite spot on the mountain at the 4,000 feet

elevation. It was so pretty I stayed here for the day. I

need the brake after 6 mos. in the hot Lahaina sun.

I removed the painted in hi-way sign by sanding and

repainting the area. I had added it in too early.

Painting NotesSit down and point your nose at the direction of the center of your picture.

Set up your easel and be sure your support is level.

Move your eyes when you look at different areas of the view, not your whole head.

It's best to look with one eye only.

Follow one concentric ring across the (support, panel, canvas). This and visually

marking the left and right sides of the image should give you your final painting


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image width.

If your painting for more then one day on location, mark everything about your

easels position.

When going after accuracy not speed everything must stay in the same relative

position.Day 3

I changed the pitch of the green middle ground slope and fixed all the fence posts.

I've given up on trying to catch the sun so I'm spreading the cool around with a glaze of

Cyan..

I considered it 100% covered by 3:00.

I still haven't got the shape of the main tree yet but I will right after this break.

I would say there are 30% more flowers today. Soon the petals will blow on the hi-way, I'll

have to be here at 6:00 in the morning to catch that. The day after tomorrow I hope.

4:48 finished for the day, ten to five, I thought I was out of that rut.. It was a perfect day,

and it just happened to be my 61st birthday!

After such a great day I left for the higher levels, the 7,000 foot level of Hosmer's Grove.

Now were in the cold. I think I'll stay here a day and give the flowers another bloomin'


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chance. See the inside of the creator and another small painting.

Day 4,

6:30, on the paintings location. There are petals on the road and more flowers on the tree.

It's perfect. Shortly it will warm up. A young kid on a road luge just whizzed by, it looked

like he had a school backpack on.

No breaks and going 35-40 mph, kids..I've taken out the left post, my perception was wrong, when I got back to basics and

looked at the whole painting and viewed it with one eye and applied paint with one eye, I

saw I had missed on the foreshortening.

Here it is with the white outs and the enlarging of the tree, pulling it more into

foreground.

It's 10:57 and the sun has gone for the day. Perfect timing, I got all my correction work

done in the paintings with the 4:00 colors by using the same colors that were already

down. Now the colors are here and I can go forward.1:17, Got to take a break, the suns back out again. It really is a beautiful day.

I won't get cloud cover for another couple hours.

It's 4:00, I think I'm done for the day. I never got the cloudy day. It was good for the

flowers though, tomorrow should be the one where I can glaze in all my colors, I have all

the shapes right.
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The Geneva International Middle School bought my CD of the color course and likes it.

I'm so happy.

I spent the rest of the daylight hours watching polo practice,

this area of Maui is cowboy country.

The night was spent at the 5,000 foot level.


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This is whiting out corrections, it will take two coats for a clean start.

Day 5, to catch each pattern of the tree correctly, look at the tree and paint it with one

eye.

Just relax yourself, you can do it.

Using one eye to view the painting and the image, which are stacked over one another is

key, the most important drawing factor.

The other :) is to paint with two eyes open after you have mentally found your marks with

one eye only :)

It's been a great day, just the right amount of overcast.

My strokes are getting smaller so I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

There is as much character in a tree as on a face, and much more intricate.

3:00, I'm adding the little branches that make the larger branches look real. A #3 script

liner now that I have the patterns in place. I'm looking for the details that make the

character of this type of tree. The petals are usually darker green underneath. that's

because they are pods of flowers, each pod sticking out from the green leaves. that always

casts a shadow in the sun and even in cloudy weather. the green leaves are very small on ashaft like a feather.

I'll try to mimic that in a stroke.

The tree is 30% covered now, way up from when I started. The petals are bluer purple in

the shade and redder in the sunlight. The leaves go from a purple-green split

complementary to a yellow-green opposition to the purple. It's Great the way nature


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works that way.

The colors remind me of the first transparent yellow Giotto's painted with. Arsenic, his

green would have been an iron green. He couldn't use the copper sediment which would

have been better and more transparent because lead turned copper black. If he had

Egypt's tin white it would have been easier. We have come a long way since than as far aspoison pigments and compatible colors are concerned but today we don't have a

transparent yellow acrylic. It's that old Church-Ostwald Color Chart where

manufactures match their colors to. We really do need an overhaul on how we use color

pigments.

Here is the day 5 image.

Finished. Jacaranda Tree at the 2,000 Ft. Level
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