clearing in the woods

[johncomic]

My 34th acrylic is a study of a piece I found in Jeremy Ford's book Painting Pastel Landscapes [wot I got outen da lie-bury]. He was demonstrating working with pastel on black paper. I got thinking that I had a canvas lying around that I had long ago undercoated with black, and still didn't know what to do with it. I kinda liked Ford's painting and so I gave it a shot.

This is my first time doing a study of someone else's work in a different medium than what they used. The experience was a pleasing eye-opener for me — it seems to suggest larger possibilities. And I think this one turned out okay enough.



Oh, and here's a scan:

Comments

[razielim]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Fascinating, I can see why this landscape benefits from a black undercoat, the sense of both clear sunlight and murky dark forest is fantastic due to the opacities with which you had to paint the two different areas. Really a great example of letting the medium work for you. Lovely painting! :)

[johncomic]

Yeah, Ford said the same about letting the black paper work for him in his pastel version. I guess he was onto something!

[leecetheartist]

Loving the sunlight breaking through there on the ground, and the whole thing really! Solid.

[johncomic]

Ta very much!

[bill_schubert]

Lovely. Thank you.

[johncomic]

My pleasure, eh?