19 February 2023 Assignment: S02E08 - Reflections

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 Assignment

This one should be a bit fun, and a bit difficult.  It focuses on creating more reflections, specifically the mountain reflections, into water.  Now, this is something I have wondered about.  It seems to me that you either have to be double jointed (based on previous painting methods, or maybe you flip the canvas upside down and just recreate the mountain again?  Either of these approaches would be difficult in that I am not great at recreating exactly what I am looking at.  That whole art class and straight line thing again.

Another aspect of this exercise is knife work.  In this episode he uses a knife to create clouds.  That should be an interesting effort.  More straight lines.

Maybe one day I just need to breakout the 8x10 canvas and practice straight lines.  But where would the fun in that be? LOL.

Results

S02E08 - Reflections
(c) 19 February 2023 Gilbert Blankenship


So this was pretty difficult in some areas, primarily in my learning curve.  Using the knife to make clouds then a brush to blend them ... that was exciting.  I still have problems with some of my brush hairs pretty much just going and doing what they want.  I am sure it has something to do with pressure and speed.    Same problem with the mountain reflections.  Not to mention that you have to be able to work upside down and backwards.  Did I ever tell you how I did on those elementary school spatial recognition tests?  

Mentally, I wanted to continually 'fix' the mountain in the lake by ... no that wont work.  Draw backwards draw backwards.

Of course - the easy approach would be to simply flip the canvas upside down and make another mountain.  But the easy way didn't occur to me until the reflection was already in the water.

Other than all of that I am pretty pleased with the paint breaks I had in the snow this time around.  I don't know if I was just lucky, if it was my day for paint breaks or if I am getting better at that.  I do note that I set the paints out to dry for about an hour before starting.  So a lot of oil was taken out of the pigment.  The down side to this is that there is so much going on that in this painting you actually need the paint to be pretty loose when you start getting to trees and water.  But that's later.
 
Next comes making the 'reflection' look ripply in the water.  Again, some of the brush (not me) kept pulling the mountain paint to one side.  

Luckily, I learned from another show about blending out accidents using a filbert brush.  So I tried that method to clean it up a bit.

The rest was pretty much approach to painting I had already been using.  Waterlines, bushes and trees, and finally some foreground land mass for some of the bushes to rest on.  All of which I think I am getting better at.

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