Showing posts with label oil on archival panel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oil on archival panel. Show all posts

Monday, September 12, 2011

Morning Fog - landscape by Kirk Witmer

Daily painting for 9/12/11 - 6 x 8" - Oil on archival panel

I titled this "Morning Fog" but as you can see it doesn't have anything to do with needing a second cup of coffee. The effort here was to convey a mood without the use of color, but instead only using values. The first step in this procedure was to create what I call "eco-gray". I do that by taking all the leftover paint on my palette from the last painting I did and mixing it until it's a uniform shade all the way through. Depending on what the last painting was, the gray may be tinted differently in each batch, so if it's too far from neutral, I'll add a touch of whatever's on the opposite side of the color wheel to pull it back toward neutral, then mix until well blended.
From there, I pulled out some white and black and started mixing a series of values. For this one I found I needed almost no black.

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Monday, July 11, 2011

A Day at the Beach, landscape by Kirk Witmer

Daily painting for July 11 - 6x8" - oil on archival panel

I thought a summertime theme would be a good thing to paint in the summer.
What says "summer" more than a day at the beach?

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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Study for Space Art #1

Daily painting for July 7th - 6x8" - oil on archival panel

This one was elusive. Not the painting, but photographing it! I took more than twenty photos trying to capture the glow on this celestial body and this seems to be the best of the lot. I'm still not sure this does it justice. If you like this image, you should see it in person.
But again, this is another study in preparation for a larger painting.

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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Sunset on the Old Mill, landscape by Kirk Witmer

Daily painting for June 29 - 6x8" - oil on archival panel

This was done in response to one of the weekly challenges on Daily Paint Works. I decided to make my version that magic hour of evening sunset lighting.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Lighthouse at Harry's Cove, landscape, seascape painting by Kirk Witmer

Daily Painting for June 27 - 6x8" - oil on archival panel

Many years ago an artist uncle of mine gave me a miniature (about 3x4") painting that he'd done and I've treasured it ever since. We've lost touch in recent years, but I thought of him when I had no idea this morning what I would paint for my daily and decided to let him inspire me. This painting is quite different than his but it's a spin off from his lighthouse on the bluff scene. I wonder if he's still alive. I'll have to try to reconnect. Thanks for your help, Harry.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Solitude, landscape painting by Kirk Witmer

6x8" - oil on archival panel
Inspired by a photo taken in the Grand Tetons National Park

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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Study for Country Lane, impressionistic landscape by Kirk Witmer

Daily Painting for June 6 - 6x8" - Oil on archival panel

This is a quick study (quick? almost two bloody hours!!) in preparation for what I've decided to call my "Dorchester Series" of landscapes. It seems very impressionistic to me, which is why I can't ever consider it a "finished" painting. That's just not my style. But the effort here was to determine what impact primarily values, and to some extent color, have on a composition. From this study I can now tell that when I begin the larger work, I will have to pay particular attention to the interplay of light and dark to maintain the best composition. And from this I know that I will have to increase the contrasts between light and dark to maximize the drama and help tell the story.
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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Sunset in Catskill Valley, landscape painting by Kirk Witmer

6x8 " - oil on archival panel

I need to keep reading the book I bought recently about the Hudson River School artists, because maybe once I get through it the urge to paint so many landscapes may subside and I can go on to paint some other things. But on the other hand, painting landscapes is not such a bad thing, is it?

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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Determination, landscape painting by Kirk Witmer

Another daily painting - 6x8" - oil on archival panel

Just like my daily painting for May 12, this was another effort at painting believeable rocks. Better? Maybe. They somehow still seem to elude me. But I'm not giving up. I must have rocks in my head? :)

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"Blonde to Enterprise .." Challenge painting by Kirk Witmer

Another daily painting - 6 x 8" - oil on archival panel

This daily painting was done in response to a Challenge from Daily Paintworks. The challenge was "to paint your interpretation of this photograph. You can change colors, crop, edit, or do what pleases you as long as you stay within the boundaries of this photo". I'm not usually one to jump in on these challenges but this one brought to my mind an idea that 96 other artists hadn't thought of. So maybe that will make mine a little more unusual.

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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Lone Pine, Canadian landscape painting by Kirk Witmer

Another daily painting - 6x8" - oil on archival panel

From somewhere in the wilds of Canada.

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Friday, May 6, 2011

Dawn at Misery Bay

Another daily painting - 6x8" - Oil on archival panel

With the small landscapes I find that I'm drawing less before I start painting. The only drawing on this one was the horizon line. Once that was decided, the rest was just massing in the colors which served quite well as a substitute for drawing in all the shapes.

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A Splash of Fall Color

Another daily painting - 6x8" - Oil on archival panel

This piece sprung from a tiny photo about one by one and a half inches, but I liked the composition. And it was sort of colorful. Many of my recent pieces have had a bleak mood to them, which is fine for awhile, but it can get monotonous.

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Study of Durand

Daily painting for May 3rd - 6x8" - Oil on archival panel


Asher Durand was probably the second most notable of the artists of the Hudson River School, after Thomas Cole. This is a study I've done of his painting "In the Catskills". No, I wasn't trying to make a copy of it, but rather just trying to achieve the same values and palette. Durand's piece is about 52x60", and to attempt a copy when you're working on about 1/8th of the size would be a fool's errand.
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Monday, May 2, 2011

Lakeside Sunrise by Kirk Witmer

Daily painting for May 2nd - 6x8" - Oil on archival panel


Inspiration ripped from a magazine and made it my own. Have quite a few of these small landscapes planned, after having seen a traveling exhibit of the Hudson River School artists.

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Friday, April 29, 2011

When We Grow Up ... ?


Another daily painting - 6x8" - oil on archival panel
This little brother and sister seem to be standing here wondering ....
"When We Grow Up .... "
...will the beaches still be this clean? Will the water still be this clear? Will the sky still be this beautiful? Can you promise us that?

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Deep Forest


"Deep Forest"
6x8" 0 Oil on archival panel

A recent museum trip to see an exhibit of the Hudson River School of artists inspired this piece. My version may not quite compare to those of the masters, but .... practice, practice practice!

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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Study for future landscape

This is a study for an upcoming landscape.

6x8" oil on archival panel

I'm planning a landscape that will be 18x24" and these two ladies will be the focal point of that work. I intend for the landscape to be the first in a series of works that have been inspired by the 1979 movie "Tess", which had some really compelling scenery in it.

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