Workshop 18, first pass

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Comment by Ningning Li on February 28, 2013 at 2:44

Casey, I love your light effect. Yesterday, I went to a beach. What I saw was just like this. How did you do it? Did you put some white in the every colour you brushed on? Or after you finished it you brush on a light grey colour on the whole canvas?  Very well done.

Comment by Ann Turner on February 8, 2013 at 16:36

I like the warm color of the sand with the cool of the distant trees. Your front will come to life when you add some more color and fix the water shape, right now it looks like a grey square. Nice start ! Happy Painting

Comment by Tammy Wolcott on February 8, 2013 at 2:20

The shadow areas are looking very good. I will be interested in seeing what you do today.

Comment by Casey Toussaint on February 8, 2013 at 1:46

And lucky you, being able to go to this beautiful place!

Comment by Casey Toussaint on February 8, 2013 at 1:43

Thanks,Diane, i
I'll try that. The sky area needs some interest. I haven'touched it yet, and have been avoiding mystudio all morning.

Comment by diane boucher on February 7, 2013 at 21:29

This is a great effort Casey. I often go to this place and your rendition of it is very good. Do you think a little light in the sky area to show where your lovely shape of light is on the beach has come from??

Comment by Casey Toussaint on February 7, 2013 at 21:25

This is the first pass for workshop 18.  Irecord it here because Iwill almost certainly ruin it today.  Not to sound overly pessimistic, but I am sort of advancing in the dark, not really knowing where to go from here, as always with a new appproach, no matter how well explained to me.  It almost never works out before a few tries.

What I see here is that   the background is too precise and the foreground too messy/no detail at all.  I am off to try to remedy that now. This may be the last word on this particular painting, but there is always the next one....

Also, this is being painted with cobalt water soluble oils .  I love the idea of them, but the  onsistency is sticky and they seem to be low in pigment.