 |
| Lake Erie Acrylic on archival Gessobord 5” x 7” Chris Breier © 2015 |
This past summer I spent an afternoon at the Erie Basin Marina and I walked to the top of the observation tower to get a better view of Lake Erie. It’s the values that create the sense of depth and light in a seascape painting. I struggled with this at first but that’s normal; I had to get some colors down first before I could make a judgement about whether it was too light or dark.
Looking at the finished painting I noticed how I managed to mix the colors as I saw them instead of how I thought they should be. For example, the color for the road was mixed from warm and cool colors– orange and blue (with white). The results are livelier than if I had used a dull gray. The “whites” of the utility van in the foreground are actually shades of blue. Normally, I don’t like to include vehicles in my paintings but I like how these turned out, I kept the shapes simple and blocky.
No comments:
Post a Comment