I was certainly up the creek while painting today...Thanks to the hurricane, and Unitil...my power went out and I literally painted this in the dark with a flashlight. I was going to work on my oil painting, but I have a difficult enough time mixing paint with light, so I opted for pastels instead.
I was actually inspired by one of my favorite paintings while painting this...VERY impressionistic in my opinion. I focused on placing a stroke and leaving it. Look at it closely and you can see the chunks of pastel sitting on the canvas. I love that! Focused on bold earth tones and some touches of colors, you may not expect in certain places. (something I've tried to emulate, but have not done yet) I've been working on this for a while and I'm happy with the result. I don't really feel I captured the water pouring over the rocks, but I am somewhat happy with the rocks. The water...does it even look like water? I think the values are wrong. Wrong with the rocks...maybe the creek? Not sure. I really love the trees...I've been enjoying doing trees with pastel...I think I'm going to tackle an 18x24 pastel landscape with trees. That will be challenging. I think I'm done with oils, at least for a while....Hope you like it.
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