Morning Fillup Revised

16" by 29" oil on canvas. Same painting with warms added in foreground water -- might be too subtle to notice the difference. I like it better. I used transparent earth red, yellow ochre and naples yellow for the warm scumbles over the reflections. Suggestion came from Jon Main. Thanks, Jon. Stu

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Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on May 6, 2013 at 13:44: Lori, thanks. Stu

Comment by Lori Ippolito on May 6, 2013 at 13:00: Stu your paintings are excellent!! I had to click on several to see if they were photos!!

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on February 9, 2013 at 15:41: Thank you Chris. Stu

Comment by Jon Main on January 20, 2013 at 7:43: OK! sounds good! Cheers Jon

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on January 19, 2013 at 17:25: Jon, thanks. You are probably right about my preference for cooler color schemes. Actually a couple of years ago during a plein air workshop, the instructor came over and told me to take cad yellow light off my palette and just use cad yellow dark because my yellows were too cool. My only yellow in this painting originally was yellow ochre but I added a little naples yellow rather that white when I put in my "warms" in the foreground. My submission for this workshop 17 has more warms in the foreground than were there when I took my photo references, but I don't have a lot of color saturation there (I did use some indian yellow and some cad orange in the grasses). So, I guess that is just my painting bias. Thanks a lot for all your comments. Stu

Comment by Jon Main on January 19, 2013 at 6:28: Stu, that's very interesting. I guess one would expect more color/saturation in the foreground, of course. Looking at you gallery I note that you seem to prefer cool color schemes, Well, I can certainly understand that subtlety requires mastery and that beginners' paintings tend to be over-saturated (mine do! I'm gonna take out the cad yellows!), but I must say (just my take of course!) that I feel you could get generally get some subtle warms in (to add a little more more snap and sparkle?)