Pa_Beach

This my painting completed in Photoshop, a combination of oils on canvas board and digital manipulation. I can't see getting the oil painting completed until the new year. My plan here was to use radiating lines to create movement. The original painting is half completed and is 12"X16".

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Comment by Sandra kelly on December 28, 2011 at 22:23: You would have to get top grades for trying so hard and putting in so much study . I can see that this is paying off for your paintings are really working.

Comment by Casey Toussaint on December 28, 2011 at 5:36: Thank you for the helpful advice, Denise. I'm going to try to start working on the color units as soon as things calm down around here.

Comment by Sharon Casavant on December 28, 2011 at 3:11: Nice Painting! I like the un-muddied colors. Clean painting.

Comment by Annie Hemsley on December 26, 2011 at 8:11: Nice Denise

Comment by Jane Albin on December 26, 2011 at 6:26: Love the purples! They look great with the soft green.

Comment by Paolo Puggioni on December 25, 2011 at 10:02: Lovely colours Denise, and nice composition. The rocks on the right are my favourite bit:)

Comment by Denise Maxwell on December 25, 2011 at 6:35: Hello Casey, I've been studying the color units as much as I can from the virtual art academy and I've been trying to use Richards color method from his color lessons and now I'm trying in particular to use the color gamut masking tool http://www.livepaintinglessons.com/gamutmask.php The other thing that I've been trying to do especially with these Workshops is to find pictures by other artists where I like the color they have used and try that out. In this Workshop4 I used a couple of the Sargent watercolors to try a similar color scheme.

I find color a very large and daunting subject so thanks for asking, I very much appreciate that you have noticed.

This Sargent watercolor I really liked and had the rocks and water and you have to love his use of color so full of light.

Comment by Casey Toussaint on December 25, 2011 at 1:48: Yes - I like the sketched in version very much. What really impresses me is your use of color - that was a real stumbling block for me as the photo doesn't show much color at all. Do you have some experience with this sort of scene in plein-air? or just a well-developed artistic imagination? Any tips on learning to do that - eg lessons from the virtual artist? My original color studies looked like they were half in color and half in black and white.

Comment by Sandra kelly on December 25, 2011 at 0:19: nice colours

Comment by Denise Maxwell on December 24, 2011 at 19:15: Thanks Susan, I was having trouble with that tree on this digital image and I see what you mean. I'm hoping to still get to completing this in oils and will try to figure out where it's gone wrong for me also. I actually like the sketched in effort on the painting it's loose and holds up well there and I had intended to leave it that way and concentrate on the patterns in the rock face to the right in the foreground. Here is the original unfinished I'm not presenting for the workshop though.