Just down the road, creeks starting to open up, sure sign spring is around the corner!
Here my set up...
...and with workshops coming up this summer, and some webinars I'm putting together for online art instruction, my secondary purpose is to gather photo references for lessons, and this day...I decided to demonstrate one of Edgar Payne's limited palette strategies using a dark neutral as a mother color, pulled into each color. Such imbues a natural working harmony, gives one nice control allowing you easily enough to slip into the gut hunch zone...and is one of about a half-dozen palette strategies I use and teach.
Here you see my darker neutral I mixed up, circled in red...and an arrow indicates I've added a bit of that neutral to each of these colors/values mixed.
What you see next, I've toned my linen support, wiped a bit of tone off to lighten values and indicate my subject layout intentions. Over that, I've mixed a darker reddish/orange with turps and my medium, and have drawn various masses. I am envisioning a rule of thirds grid in my mind's eye with intent for one bright near snow mass to fall on the lower right quandrant.
Then...the overlay shows I have painted and indicated the darkest accents and brightest...for really two reasons 1) in the event the light should change, I've nailed those indicators vital to the initial impulse of what caught my attention on this location, and 2) I have set parameters now committing that no other marks henceforth shall be as dark, nor as light/white...
Though I'm not sure about the light I had left to shoot the finished effort, I believe I have adjusted the image to be fairly accurate. I may re-shoot the work tomorrow under more ideal lighting...but, as said...pretty good...
9"x 12" linen...Early Running Creek....
...and as always, images can be clicked on to see larger image...
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