Lake Owens Sunrise Study

Oil on canvas panel, 6" by 12", studio painting and a study for a larger piece. I was headed back to Northern California from the Eastern Sierras after a plein air workshop and had to stop to photograph the sunrise over Owen's Lake. I plan to take this up to an 18" by 36" painting on stretched canvas. I will have to put in more detail. Any comments, critiques, suggestions will be most appreciated.

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Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on March 30, 2015 at 15:15: Thanks Ian.

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on March 29, 2015 at 3:49: Thank you Jessica!!

Comment by Jessica Futerman on March 29, 2015 at 3:47: Beautiful study, Stu!

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on March 28, 2015 at 16:29: Thanks Ann; I will certainly address that but probably not until I scale it up. Stu

Comment by Ann Turner on March 28, 2015 at 15:08: Food for thought, What might Johannas say ? Maybe, The right and left side of the painting echo each other, you need more variety of form and color.

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on March 27, 2015 at 13:25: Thanks Laura! It was that sky that I saw out my car window while driving South toward Mojave that made me take the photo.

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on March 27, 2015 at 13:22: Thanks Ann. I will work out the design for the lake in the next couple of days and probably paint my larger version next week. I will post what I do here or create a little blog on up scaling from the small study and put step by step photos.

Comment by Laura Xu on March 27, 2015 at 13:08: It is great! Specially I love the sky!

Comment by Ann Turner on March 27, 2015 at 12:04: It will be interesting to see the painting larger. I agree that the sectioned light on the water could be simplified especially in a larger version where it would take up more canvas space with that high contrast.

Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on March 27, 2015 at 8:48: Thanks Michael! Since I did this from my photos, those weren't really there, but need to be, especially with the lighted sky. I am going to fix the design of Owen's Lake which had very little water in it to make less shapes and I will warm up the foreground and lighten a little before I scale up to a larger painting with more detail. This was mainly a value and color study but missed on the foreground hues. I have only spent about an hour on each of these paintings and wanted the kind of input that I am getting here before scaling up, so I really appreciate your input!