Florida Sunrise 11x14 Acrylic on Gallery Canvas It's been chilly so I just thought, what seems warm right about now? Yeah, Florida. Enjoy, EddieMac
I was asked by several friends if that really was a painting or a photograph that I posted on Facebook and on my website. Well, the following images are a sequence of shots that basically amount to a demonstration of the construction of how this painting was put together. OK. This is just a peek at me working at the easel, but not on the painting under discussion. I work with acrylics on canvas, or hardboard panels. I'm also sorta anal about keeping a fairly neat studio. This is the painting I'm discussing. I prefer to work in layers. My feeling is that this is how the world we see, really exists. I start with the sky way in the distance, and just like reality, I add the next closest layer, distant clouds, mist, etc. and move progressively closer to the viewer. No clouds in the piece, but a very definite haze surrounding the sun. Here I begin building up thin layers of haziness in the atmosphere. I add more thin laye