On My Walk

12 x 9 Water Soluble Oils. This is the painting I did for our first challenge for a group show at The Essence Gallery in Albuquerque, NM in December. We will do twelve paintings, and then pick out our three best for the show. Twenty Eight artists from the group "Let's Paint New Mexico" are participating.

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Comment by Candi Hogan on August 22, 2015 at 12:36: Hi Michael! Thanks for looking! I did under paint the sky with white and a little yellow ochre, and used cerulean blue over, probably just not enough! I'll add more I'm going to add the photo that we are all supposed to paint. They said we could edit. Maybe I'll just fix this sky a bit and do another without the fence. I probably should have read your next note before I responded...will check that out!

Comment by Michael J. Severin on August 22, 2015 at 11:29: Me again, if your repaint the sky, you will need to rework the tree edges into the sky. This is to create luminosity in the sky/tree area.

Comment by Michael J. Severin on August 22, 2015 at 11:23: Candi, great painting ..it reminds me of a French Impressionist painting!!! I like your cool dominance with bits of warm peeking here and there. You did a wonderful job on those cool greens of the flowers. I would suggest that you take out the fence ..has nothing to do with anything and blocks are way into the painting. Then extend some of those plants ..on the left side ....down to the bottom of the canvas .and out. With the small remaining shape, make that a brick path with a darker color of the warm wall. That will tie the warm colored wall with the foreground and move your eye into the painting. Try to lighten and warm your sky ...more cerulean blue tone ..try underpainting the sky with ocher and white and then paint either cerulean blue or ultramarine + yellow into the underpainting. Take a look at a few French Impressionist paintings of gardens.