Monday, November 14, 2011

PAINTING AT DEB'S

I had the beginnings of an idea for this full sized sheet (22" x 30") painting of crows when I went to Deb's last Thursday.  After some discussion about what I was thinking, this is what I started with.  I want the shadows of the crows to be primary colors (or very close to just pure primaries without being pure color) = one crow shadow will be the blue + red leaning to blue; one crow shadow will be the red + yellow leaning to yellow; and one crow shadow will be the red + blue leaning to red.  Just 3 primary colors of red, blue and yellow for this painting.



Primarily Crows
On Saunders Waterford full sheet (22" x 30") 140# cold press paper.



It may work.  It may not.  I'll keep going and we'll see what happens.  The crows will be "black" mixed with the 3 primary colors and nothing else.  I'm putting the shadows in first.

7 comments:

  1. Jeanette JobsonNovember 14, 2011 at 10:01:00 AM EST

    This is a neat idea and the colours of the shadows will work beautifully.

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  2. Carol BlackburnNovember 14, 2011 at 10:26:00 AM EST

    Hmmm, looks interesting!

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  3. hw (hallie) farberNovember 14, 2011 at 4:12:00 PM EST

    I think this will be great.

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  4. RH CarpenterNovember 14, 2011 at 6:45:00 PM EST

    Thanks, Jeanette, Carol and Hallie. I'll be working on it and another painting at the same time - the wet-in-wet on this Saunders Waterford paper really leaves the paper damp for a long time so it's good to have another to work on while this one dries.

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  5. JaneNovember 15, 2011 at 9:07:00 AM EST

    I admire all this planning before the actually painting, it will surely be great.

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  6. RH CarpenterNovember 15, 2011 at 9:27:00 AM EST

    Thanks, Jane, I hope you are right. I always plan things out although I don't talk about the planning much. If I just go and put paint on paper, it never turns into anything but a mess! I admire those who can paint more intuitively but I'm not one of them.

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  7. Pam Johnson BrickellNovember 15, 2011 at 12:56:00 PM EST

    I'm looking forward to seeing where this piece takes you. It's good to plan but I also think your intuition leads you as the piece begins to build and it talks to you.

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