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What's In A Name Part II

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 layers of haze and make adjustments to values
and degrees of softness.


 With the sky complete, I blocked in the earth using a 
violet mixed from Thio Violet and French Ultramarine.


 The bulk of the main features are also blocked in using the same 
violet mix. The next layer of color is added the the dry grasses.
As can be seen in the photo, a print of the scene I'm painting
can be seen in the lower right.


Now the for the mobile home. A fade old turquoise place with 
rust, and weather stains. In this picture, you can see that I'm painting on 
a gallery wrapped canvas. Generally, I don't paint the scene around to the 
sides. But I did with this painting.


 The final stages of the foreground grasses.

 
Final adjustments to various details are made, 
including the lighting, and my signature. 



The final piece.
Hope you enjoyed this.
Blessings...Eddie Mac

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